Re: [ACPI] ACPI mentioned on lwn.net/kernel

Dan Maas (dmaas@dcine.com)
Fri, 25 Jan 2002 21:12:03 -0500


> These are all startup costs that are lost in the noise
> the longer the program runs.

This may be true for environments where people mostly run a handful of
monolithic applications (*ahem* windows) but look at typical Linuxy things
like:

make (compiler, assembler, linker processes...)
forking servers (Apache 1.x...)
*./configure scripts* (a big one!!!)
etc...

Startup cost is likely to be a big factor here...

Regards,
Dan

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