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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:23:53 +0200
From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:11:02AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
 > The problem is that this may be abused.  Someone nasty could
 > write a cpu hog that drops a lot of hints about being
 > interactive, starving real interactive programs.
 > 
 > Generally, it degenerates into application programmers
 > using _all_ the hints to get performance, so they
 > can beat some competitor in benchmarks.  And all
 > other programs just get penalized.

I can see how that would be a problem.
If I didn't have the source to $programs.

        Dave

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