Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Dec 1999 18:44:40 -0600 | From | "Dwayne C . Litzenberger" <> | Subject | Re: Bloat? (khttpd) |
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On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 01:31:42AM +0100, Dominik Kubla wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 05:58:16PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > > Does someone have Linus's take on why on earth he let something that > > should definitely be in user-space (the httpd) into the kernel? It seems > > absurd to me, and odd that Linus would allow it. > > Performance. The apache/khttpd combo beats the shit out of NT in most > benchmarks.
Maybe so, but why don't we put Quake into the kernel, too? You would get great performance, but something like that simply belongs in user space. I don't think Linux deserves the benchmarks it gets if it cheats to get them. We shouldn't let politics allow us to employ bad design (If a registry ala Windows was a performance issue, would we use it? No, because it makes a mess of everything).
An HTTP server is something that should be in a patch, not the main kernel tree. (Heck, software suspend and the PC-speaker driver should go in before khttpd does.)
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