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

