Re: Bloat? (khttpd)

Marek Habersack (grendel@vip.net.pl)
Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:57:53 +0100


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* Dwayne C . Litzenberger said:

> > Performance. The apache/khttpd combo beats the shit out of NT in most
> > benchmarks.
>=20
> Maybe so, but why don't we put Quake into the kernel, too? You would get
> great performance, but something like that simply belongs in user space. I
> don't think Linux deserves the benchmarks it gets if it cheats to get
> them. We shouldn't let politics allow us to employ bad design (If a
> registry ala Windows was a performance issue, would we use it? No,
> because it makes a mess of everything).=20
>=20
> An HTTP server is something that should be in a patch, not the main kernel
> tree. (Heck, software suspend and the PC-speaker driver should go in
> before khttpd does.)
Come on, I don't understand the noise. You don't like it, you don't use it.
After all compiling it in is OPTIONAL, right?=20

marek

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