Quotes of the week

So I tentatively submitted a test case to the Linux kernel mailing list. I didn't know what to expect; maybe more flames carrying over from the BFS debate? Instead, I got "Thanks a bunch for the nice repeatable testcase!" This is one of the few times I've seen this outside of what I attempt to do with x264: a developer happy to see someone report a bug with his code and apparently eager to jump to fixing it. Though it certainly sounded good so far, but would anything result from this?

Answer: yes: up to a 70% increase in performance, committed the next day. But the kernel devs weren't done yet: a quick grep of Linux kernel mails over the next weeks showed x264 popping up in quite a few scheduler benchmarks: they had added it as a regular test case. And just recently we got another 10% performance.

Something that looks like crap should not get extra protection to stay in the kernel just because it 'might' be non-crap.