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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 22:13:01 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Justin Guyett <justin@soze.net>
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Subject: Re: [OT] What are the VM motivations??
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Justin Guyett wrote:

> > 	One we know how we would 'train' our little VM critter, we
> > will know how to measure its performance. Once we have measures, we
> > can have good benchmarks. Once we have good benchmarks - we can pick
> > a good VM alg.
> 
> I can see it now... "Care and Feeding of your linux kernel VM for Dummies"

Shouldn't that be "by Dummies(tm)" ?  ;)

Rik
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