On Thursday, May 3, 2012, 12:52:13 PM, Adam wrote: > On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 10:05 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: >> So if we want to blacklist low performers, okay, that's a thing we can >> do I suppose. Where do we draw the line? > 'anything Atom is slow as hell' would be an obvious win, I suspect. If > your baseline of acceptable performance is 'Core and up', I think we can > be pretty confident that Atom is not going to make it. I personally believe that blacklisting based on CPU capacity is wrong. Blacklisting might have the side effect of blocking future Atom CPUs (perhaps in a multi-CPU configuration) with a better performance story. It certainly eliminates any pressure to further improve the code. Perhaps a given setup it may be slow, but blacklisting is a non-configurable and arbitrary way to prevent users from making that choice on their own. I am personally using some 32-bit Pentium 4 (desktop and laptop systems. My hardware. My choice. Someone who has a reason to use a given configuration may be more motivated to be patient than a developer who is used to the latest and greatest. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
