On 1 February 2010 10:41, Ted Unangst <ted.unangst@gmail.com> wrote:

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>> I think the pool allocator is doable. Will look at it when I get a spare
>> hour or two (may be a while ;)
>
> Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
>
> You are begging for pain.  Multi backend allocators have not fared well.
>

He hacks *accelerated X*  and gets into pmap for fun and amusement and
occasionally joins me looking a the buffer cache and NFS.. I've not
yet decided if that's because he's simply a glutton for punshiment,
feels sorry for me being in pain, or simply finds NFS and the buffer
cache less pain that what he's usually looking at...

Telling oga there will be pain involved is not a demotivator... He
probably goes to the dentist like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAKYQjpDtpA