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| by Sam Varghese | |
| Wednesday, 23 September 2009 | |
  
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But at a roundtable discussion held as part of the Linux Foundation's LinuxCon conference in Portland, Oregon, Torvalds was quoted by the British tech website The Register as saying the kernel was "getting bloated and huge" and that it was definitely a problem. According to the report, Novell engineer James Bottomley referred to an internal study done by Intel which had found Linux performance had fallen by 2 percentage points at every release. Over the last 10 releases, the drop had been about 12 percent. Torvalds said there was no plan to cut down on the bloat. The kernel was "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," he was quoted as saying. However, he maintained that the kernel would continue to be stable because bugs were being found at about the same rate as they were being added. Linux users would feel the bloat even more as they normally run one of the two popular desktop environments - KDE or GNOME - both of which have their own share of bloat. |
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