[Swift-devel] Re: [Swift-user] Swift finished with errors

[Mihael Hategan]

On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 00:06 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> On Thu, 29 May 2008, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> 
> > > This is a fairly conservative default that a user is free to change if 
> > > they really want to; on shared systems, which is where most people 
> > > seem to be running swift, I'd much prefer that this doesn't flood the 
> > > system with CPU intensive processes.
> > 
> > I'm talking about localhost.
> 
> yes, so am I. most people's localhost is a shared system. it seems fairly 
> unusual (as in: you do it, and I do it, and that's about it) for people to 
> run swift on a single-user system.

The ratio of usefulness to effort for this discussion is going towards
zero, but... the point is still whether 2 vs. larger single digits means
the difference between a responsive system and a non-responsive one. Not
whether 2, not whether the system is shared or not, but whether 4 or 8
causes visibly more distress than 2.

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