> On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 01:31:42AM +0100, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> > Performance. The apache/khttpd combo beats the shit out of NT in most
> > benchmarks.
>
> Maybe so, but why don't we put Quake into the kernel, too?
Because it's not necessary. All that needed to go into the kernel
was the DRM.
They didn't put Apache in the kernel either, just the code required
to give a nice performance boost when serving static pages.
> (If a registry ala Windows was a performance issue, would we use it?
Yes. IIRC either KDE or GNOME (or both?) caches ASCII config files
in a binary format for fast parsing.
//Marcus
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