Theodore Tso wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 01:28:32PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > Obviously there are bugs, it is simply how things work. > > And debugging state machine code has exactly the same complexity as > > debugging multi-threading code - if not less... > > Evgeniy, > > I think what you are not hearing, and what everyone else is saying > (INCLUDING Linus),
Excluding possibly many others. > is that for most programmers, state machines are > much, much harder to program, understand, and debug compared to > multi-threaded code. That's why you introduce an infrastructure that hides all the nitty-gritty plumbing, and makes it easy to use. > You may disagree (were you a MacOS 9 programmer > in another life?), and it may not even be true for you if you happen > to be one of those folks more at home with Scheme continuations, for > example. Personal attacks are really rather unhelpful/unscientific. > But it is true that for most kernel programmers, threaded > programming is much easier to understand, and we need to engineer the > kernel for what will be maintainable for the majority of the kernel > development community. What's probably true is that, for a kernel to stay competitive you need two distinct traits: 1. Stability 2. Performance And you can't get that, by arguing that the kernel development community doesn't have the brains to code for performance, which I dearly doubt. So, instead of using intimidating language to force one's opinion thru, especially when it comes from those in control, why not have a democratic vote? Thanks! -- Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
