Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 03:38:38PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> Wrong. Any system that spends that much time in those places is designed
> wrong. Most time is spent in user-space, or waiting for io, and optimizing
> for io by recompiling is a waste of resources.
Yeah, God-knows it's stupid to be doing a whole lot of CPU-intensive
tasks on your computer, when you'd much rather be in the idle loop
waiting for input.
Your second statement makes sense: your first statement doesn't.
Obviously, if an app *has* to block for input, it has to, but on modern
PCs the best thing you can be is CPU-bound. Memory-bound means you run
at memory bus speeds. I/O bound is 1000s of times slower.
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