Re: [gentoo-dev] AUTHORS file for portage repository

[Rich Freeman]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 5:49 PM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2018-11-27 at 16:01 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 3:42 PM Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o> wrote:
> > >
> > > That git manages not to die every day based on what we throw at it is
> > > frankly a miracle of engineering.
> >
> > Our repo is a linked list being constantly manipulated from the head
> > backed by a hashed object store for the contents.  For that use case
> > it is probably the ideal data structure.  Since our use case is
> > actually the typical use case, it isn't a surprise that this was the
> > design that was chosen...  :)
> >
> > Computers are pretty fast when you actually use the correct algorithm...
> >
>
> Yes, computers are fast and their work is cheap.  On the other hand,
> humans are not fast and their time is expensive.  Now use the power of
> human thinking to infer this to what you're doing to this thread.
>

Not wasting everybody's time with personal attacks?

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Rich