On Sep 21, 2009, at 9:12 PM, andrey mirtchovski wrote:
it's on slashdot, it must be true: "During a roundtable discussion at LinuxCon in Portland, Oregon this afternoon, moderator and Novell distinguished engineer James Bottomley asked Tovalds whether Linux kernel features were being released too fast, before the kernel is stabilized. Citing an internal Intel study that tracked kernel releases, Bottomley said Linux performance had dropped about two per centage points at every release, for a cumulative drop of about 12 per cent over the last ten releases. "Is this a problem?" he asked. "We're getting bloated and huge. Yes, it's a problem," said Torvalds."
So may be Tanenbaum was right, after all, there's a reason we make things modular.
well, not really slashdot: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/22/linus_torvalds_linux_bloated_huge/ Ron, did you throw anything at Linus while you were there? :)
