Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > I think what you are not hearing, and what everyone else is saying
> > (INCLUDING Linus), is that for most programmers, state machines are
> > much, much harder to program, understand, and debug compared to
> > multi-threaded code.  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.  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.
> 
> I understand that - and I totally agree.
> But when more complex, more bug-prone code results in higher performance
> - that must be used. We have linked lists and binary trees - the latter

No-o. Kernel is not designed like that.

Often, more complex and slightly faster code exists, and we simply use
slower variant, because it is fast enough.

10% gain in speed is NOT worth major complexity increase.
							Pavel
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