Subject: Re: New hash algorithm - FNV - for use in the kernel
To: None <tech-perform@netbsd.org, tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-perform
Date: 11/27/2001 22:55:09
> [...], but if it makes a 10yr old computer slower while making a
> computer bought today faster, I know what I'd prefer.

...and you'll drive away the retrocomputing geeks in droves.  One of
NetBSD's greatest strengths is that it runs on an immense spectrum of
machines from sub-1MIP VAXen and Sun-2s through bleeding-edge killer
desktops.  Do you really want to lose that low end?

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