Has The performance been forgotten?

[Alexander Kellett]

can you *please* ban this guy? i'm totaly sick of this now

On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 01:22:19AM -0700, Bahram Alinezhad wrote:
> -->> Also, please read other posts I send
> simultaneously.
> 
> My friend,
> 
> If a project is deflecting from the right path, It may
> be necessary to stop its development and revise some
> past steps.
> 
> I regret I'm not a programmer and cannot participate
> in development, and sometimes cannot understand how
> much difficult can be offering a fast, beautiful, and
> bug-free software.
> 
> May be a question about slowness of SuSE lead to one
> of its components e.g. KDE; and that question about
> KDE lead to other projects like QT; Similarly, many
> projects may be known responsible for a certain issue,
> but all in uncertainty, and all may deny! If such a
> lack of co-ordination can be found in the linux
> community, solving a performance problem becomes
> disappointing; However, I hope this not to be true.
> 
> If hopefully, the above deduction proves flase, one
> can ask developers to work seriously on some projects
> with the focus on performance: a parameter that is one
> of the most important criteria which unfortunately,
> only very skilled programmers pay attention to it.
> 
> The performance issue here is not around %2 or %10: We
> have a great unreal slowness that requires severe
> notice; When your N hours spent on it saves N*10000
> hours of user's times, isn't it worth doing a tedious
> work?
> 
> Just at the time that open-source products are
> reaching to a usable, favourable, and likable point,
> adding a series of unnecessary cumbersome features
> make it so ugly and awkward that deservers laughing at
> it again.
> 
> Isn't it a good impression to say that "THE FASTEST
> LINUX" when introducing a new version or distribution?
> 
> I hope developers hear this little user's voice and
> promise to examine the case.
> 
> Thank you for your notice,
> Bahram Alinezhad,
> Tehran, Iran.
> 
> -->> Also, please read other posts I send
> simultaneously.
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------
> "Jeffrey L. Taylor" (suse at austinblues.dyndns.org)
> wrote:
> ---------------------------------------------------
> 
> Developers often have the latest and fastest machines.
>  It isn't that they ignore performance hits.  There
> aren't any on the machines they use.  Volunteer
> developers (i.e., non-paid) get no brownie points for
> improving performance.  They do get brownie points for
> features.  They get flak for really bad performance. 
> Flak can be ignored, discounted, brushed off, etc.  If
> you want performance, reward it with money, hardware,
> public praise, etc.  Performance tuning is hard,
> tedious work that mostly yields little reward.  (How
> many brownie points are you going to get for a 2%
> improvement, even if it took a week or two to find? 
> And performance tuning is a game of diminishing
> returns, i.e., if the first week of tuning may get you
> a 10% improvement, the second will probably yield no
> more than half that.)
> 
> Jeffrey
> 
> 
> 
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mvg,
Alex

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