potential paper topic

[Henry Spencer]

Something that occurred to me at Usenix:  if there are any ambitious souls
out there looking for something useful to do that might lead to a Usenix
paper, take some significant piece of Unix and improve its performance.
Most of the Unix code has never even been looked at with performance in
mind.  The authors by and large followed the (sensible) philosophy of
"first make it work, then make it fast"... except that in practice this
usually turned into "first make it work, then lose interest and go do
something else".
-- 
The Earth is our mother;       |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
our nine months are up.        | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry at zoo.toronto.edu