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What was the name of that anesthesiologist who about decade ago did a lot of work in desktop UI latency in Linux kernel? How did it went? Was any of it integrat
by dvh 5y ago
What was the name of that anesthesiologist who about decade ago did a lot of work in desktop UI latency in Linux kernel? How did it went? Was any of it integrated to mainline kernel?
- kryptiskt 5y agoThat's Con Kolivas. It wasn't merged, he maintained patches out of tree until recently[0]. A pity as latency doesn't seem like a high priority for Linux. Strictly speaking a real-time OS isn't about that though, that's about bounded latency, not low latency. [0] http://ck-hack.blogspot.com/2021/08/514-and-future-of-muqss-and-ck-once.html http://ck-hack.blogspot.com/2021/08/514-and-future-of-muqss-...
- nitrogen 5y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Kolivas https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Kolivas Nothing was merged, and last time I tried the nvidia driver didn't work with his scheduler. It's a shame, because BFS was the snappiest desktop experience I've had on Linux.
- userbinator 5y agoanesthesiologist I remember quite a few small utilities and sites I've seen over the years were written by anesthesiologists, not career software developers. I wonder why.
- marcodiego 5y agoBecause the work of an anesthetist is one of the most technical ones a physician can do.
- traskjd 5y agoIndeed the comment I’ve had surgeons point out: often the most skilled/trained person in the operating theatre is the anesthesiologist.
- jxramos 5y agocan you elaborate, is it to track drug concentration profiles or work out some kind of body weight to dosage formulae or something? What's going on exactly that pushes them into the technical space.
- shadowofneptune 5y agoIT is a very different field from medicine, and everyone needs a hobby.