On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 03:16:25PM +1030, David Newall wrote:
I suppose if they update their cash registers they will just go
with fully Linux binaries.
It's not a big difference, but why do unnecessary work on all
Linux kernels? There are a lot of Linux machines out there and
if all of them only do a little unnecessary work each fork()
over a year it adds up to really a lot of wasted cycles.
Especially since the few people who might really
need it can easily readd it.
But Linux is not good for this currently, at least not unless you
add a significant patch (which I'm not sure does even exist
for modern 2.6; iBCS was mainly deployed on 2.4 kernels). And when you
add that patch you can easily readd the strcmps too.
You're worried about this patch generating headlines?
-Andi
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