On Feb 20, 2008 5:52 PM, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Mayuresh Kathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-20 13:12]:
>
> > On Feb 20, 2008 4:58 PM, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > * Mayuresh Kathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-17 13:38]:
> > > > Wouldn't it be nice to have a high performance networking stack?
> > >
> > > yeah.
> > > guess what we have?
> > > exactly that.
> > > (which doesn't mean it could be even faster)
> >
> > Pardon if I sound ignorant, but isn't our networking stack based on
> > the 24 year old technology from Berkeley?
>
> so?
>
> isn't your computer running on >>100 years old technology called
> "electricity"?

But that >100 year old technology used to be DC earlier, then it was
converted to AC because of its inherent benefits.
Similarly, wouldn't it have been beneficial to go for a modern
approach for the network stack?
(not that now I can do anything about it, all's lost for me)
Could you please read http://research.sun.com/minds/2007-0710/

~Mayuresh

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