On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:46:25 -0700
Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote:

> > Soo... Your performance requirements may met by OpenBSD despite it's
> > current poor SMP support - other OSes will scale on SMP. Trade-offs,
> > trade-offs... It's a psychological issue. We have all this multicore
> > hardware that doesn't get taken advantage of by this OS, and it's
> > always in the backs of our minds, but the security and simplicity
> > trade-offs may be worth it anyway, so screw the hardware.
> 
> Or put it another way.
> 
> I couldn't help but smile when someone told me their 16-way SMP box
> had been holed by a bug in their ld.so.

:)

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