I wrote: > IIRC, there was some serious research on this, from UK, a couple of > years back, which concluded that while early merging seems > counter-intuitive to the driver it actually improves the overall > throughput. And also that the theory assumed a certain percentage of > assholes that seemed too low to me. > > I'll see what Google can turn up.
20 minutes of looking around didn't turn up the scientific reference, unfortunately. However I found this readworthy piece which explains my thoughts a lot better than I could have done it myself: http://blog.case.edu/singham/2007/06/08/highway_merging_and_the_theory_of_evolution Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

