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A comment on 60x speed-up of Linux “perf”.

Re:60x speed-up of Linux “perf” by unique_parrot2 on Thursday September 09, 2021 @02:41PM (#28473100)
So all I am understanding is, we could make linux 10-100 times faster, but licensing-quirks don't allow it? Physical electricity, time and whatnot is wasted because of legal foo?
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Re:60x speed-up of Linux “perf” by foxfluff on Thursday September 09, 2021 @02:43PM (#28473116)
No, you're not understanding it. Perf is a profiling tool. It's slow on Debian because reasons.
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Re:60x speed-up of Linux “perf” by danuker on Thursday September 09, 2021 @02:45PM (#28473135)
The GPL requires that software linking to GPL projects are also licensed in GPL. This issue could be solved easily by releasing GPL software, that respects users' freedom.
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Re:60x speed-up of Linux “perf” by Macha on Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:52PM (#28475086)
Both packages involved here are GPL, but unfortunately have mutually exclusive version ranges (=2, and >=3)
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