I wasn’t overestimating things, I only reported the news.
BTW neither in the title nor in the article it literally they state that Linux will be 2.6% “faster”.
Nor did antonmdev say that it literally said that. The article title is a bit click-baity. “Linus Torvalds lands a minor performance improvement with minor Linux kernel patch” would’ve been more honest, wouldn’t it? Not qualifying what the 2.6% refer to is trying to make this sound more important than it is.
I disagree. The article is interesting for me and not a click bait, I learnt something about a performance improvement in Linux kernel. But you are free to have your own thoughts about it.
FYI I’m not the author of the article. I only shared it. You can write in the comment of the article suggesting rephrasing it or future articles.
BTW when I read it I haven’t believed that the whole kernel had a 2.6% boost with a patch of few rows (but as you, I’m a very small sample) I haven’t found it clickbait, otherwise I haven’t shared here,
Do not overestimate importance of this. This patch will not make linux 2.6% “faster”. This very narrow scoped change.
I wasn’t overestimating things, I only reported the news. BTW neither in the title nor in the article it literally they state that Linux will be 2.6% “faster”.
Nor did antonmdev say that it literally said that. The article title is a bit click-baity. “Linus Torvalds lands a minor performance improvement with minor Linux kernel patch” would’ve been more honest, wouldn’t it? Not qualifying what the 2.6% refer to is trying to make this sound more important than it is.
I disagree. The article is interesting for me and not a click bait, I learnt something about a performance improvement in Linux kernel. But you are free to have your own thoughts about it.
Interesting and click-bait aren’t mutually exclusive, fwiw.
FWIW, for me (sample, n=1), the title led me to believe that it was a kernel-wide performance increase.
Based on my experience alone, it is indeed a touch clickbaity.
Not worth updating, but worth considering as you write the title on your next post. Take the feedback constructively.
FYI I’m not the author of the article. I only shared it. You can write in the comment of the article suggesting rephrasing it or future articles.
BTW when I read it I haven’t believed that the whole kernel had a 2.6% boost with a patch of few rows (but as you, I’m a very small sample) I haven’t found it clickbait, otherwise I haven’t shared here,
Which is, of course, nothing more than a partial win-back of the performance loss from Spectre mitigation.
Thanks for sharing!