On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 11:08:41PM -0700, Greywolf wrote:

 > Begging pardon, but doesn't every layer you shove in there as an abstraction
 > cost performance?  We already endure that price for our cross-platform
 > portability.

There's nothing wrong with having an (optional) UDI shim layer, in
case there are binary drivers that you just HAVE to have... but yes,
native drivers are always better.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>