On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 04:12:07PM -0400, STeve Andre' wrote: > On 03/05/14 10:08, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: > >Anybody have any thoughts on how to achieve this? > > > >Thanks. > > > >O.D. > > > > > Lots of others have replied to this, but I'm going to jump in with > a few comments. > > Probably the biggest reason OpenBSD will never be the fastest OS > around is the simple fact that when optimizing for speed, you > sacrifice other things. Like security. Security, or correctness, means > you are looking for the most reliable way to do something, not the > fastest. Mechanisms like pro-police (or a new name for it?) are > going to slow things down a little. I think Theo said that all the > security systems slow a system down by less than 5%. I believe > that. The effect isn't huge but some would call that too much. > Indeed.
Good, fast, or cheap. Choose any two. This is an engineering maxim that has held up for quite some time now. There is a tension between these that cannot be resolved completely, and there will always be trade-offs to be made. -- John D. Verne <j...@clevermonkey.org>
