Subject: Re: New hash algorithm - FNV - for use in the kernel
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org, tech-perform@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/28/2001 04:17:13
> If people are concerned about performance on machines that are 10
> years old, then they should upgrade their hardware, not complain that
> some algorithm implemented makes access to their bubble memory
> slower.

If you're volunteering to fund everybody's upgrades, including ensuring
that peripherals continue to work...I might go for it.

Otherwise, that attitude seems more appropriate to a heatseeker's OS
like Windows than to NetBSD.

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