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Re: Packages file (long email) [WAS: Splitting Packages]



On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 02:49:53PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> > If we always have to stick 100% to Policies and possible breaks than
> > we should just leave things like they are now. People rised a serious
> > problem and the idea is to try to optimize as much as we can.
>
> Any complexity theorist will tell you that optimizing away constant
> factors gains you nothing in the long run, especially when you lose
> robustness by doing so.

If at least the constant would be high ;) But since it's something like
1-epsilon, we can care less (and maybe it's even 1+epsilon).

Jens

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