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то сейчас осталось 3.49% от скорости ядро 2.0.

Думаю так и есть. 2.0 помнится отлично работало на 486.

И да, оказывается не Торвальдс сказал, а кто-то в присутствии Торвальдса, ссылаясь на иследование Intel.

At LinuxCon 2009, Linux creator Linus Torvalds said that the Linux kernel has become «bloated and huge»:

Citing an internal Intel study that tracked kernel releases, Bottomley said Linux performance had dropped about two per centage points at every release, for a cumulative drop of about 12 per cent over the last ten releases. «Is this a problem?» he asked.

-We're getting bloated and huge. Yes, it's a problem ... Uh, I'd love to say we have a plan ... I mean, sometimes it's a bit sad that we are definitely not the streamlined, small, hyper-efficient kernel that I envisioned 15 years ago ... The kernel is huge and bloated, and our icache footprint is scary. I mean, there is no question about that. And whenever we add a new feature, it only gets worse.

то сейчас осталось 3.49% от скорости ядро 2.0.

Думаю так и есть. 2.0 помнится отлично работало на 486.

Ни да, оказывается не Торвальдс сказал, а кто-то в присутствии Торвальдса, ссылаясь на иследование Intel.

At LinuxCon 2009, Linux creator Linus Torvalds said that the Linux kernel has become «bloated and huge»:

Citing an internal Intel study that tracked kernel releases, Bottomley said Linux performance had dropped about two per centage points at every release, for a cumulative drop of about 12 per cent over the last ten releases. «Is this a problem?» he asked.

-We're getting bloated and huge. Yes, it's a problem ... Uh, I'd love to say we have a plan ... I mean, sometimes it's a bit sad that we are definitely not the streamlined, small, hyper-efficient kernel that I envisioned 15 years ago ... The kernel is huge and bloated, and our icache footprint is scary. I mean, there is no question about that. And whenever we add a new feature, it only gets worse.