On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 10:40:30AM -0700, Nick Sayer wrote: > Linux generates a meric of CPU performance as a byproduct of calibrating > a delay loop. > We don't require doing any such thing, and so adding it would be purely > cosmetic. > However, I allege that cosmetic things aren't in and of themselves evil, > so long as > they don't break anything in the process.
I'd have to agree with the "Lets be more professional" crowd. How about as a LINT option? "If you need something so banal, you can turn it on yourself" -- Robert Sexton, rob...@kudra.com "Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining." -- Jeff Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
