Re: BUGed to death

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 19:23:42 EST


Followup to: <20030414210006.GA7831@suse.de>
By author: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> The sort of folks who would worry about that very last 1% are the
> sort of people that would more than likely hit these BUGs as they're
> really stressing things.
>
> Losing a bunch of potential reports (and possibly doing bad things),
> in the name of a 1% performance boost doesn't sound too productive to me.
>

It's useful to have the hooks to actually *measure* the overhead,
though.

        -hpa

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