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Why? It's well scoped: "the best ... for desktop, multimedia, and gaming workloads". The Linux kernel is buit for all sorts of devices, including embedded, ser

Why? It's well scoped: "the best ... for desktop, multimedia, and gaming workloads". The Linux kernel is buit for all sorts of devices, including embedded, servers, desktops, phones, etc - it's not hard to imagine the default settings being not perfectly optimized for a specific usecase (that said, I have not tried the lqx kernel or looked at benchmarks, but the claim doesn't seem outrageous).

sedatk 5y ago
I think "optimized for desktop, multimedia, and gaming workloads" would convey the message better.
- schoen 5y ago
  Amusingly, "optimized" originally means "made best". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/optimus#Latin https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/optimus#Latin (But I guess "best" can have a connotation of marketing-speak, while "optimized" can have a connotation of engineering-speak.)
  - sedatk 5y ago
    On a parallel note, "optimized" translates to "made best" in Turkish.
    - schoen 5y ago
      There are lots of these with many modern languages, where someone who was familiar with both a foreign language (often a classical or scholarly language) and a local language consciously adapted the vocabulary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calque https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calque It's always fun and satisfying for me to happen upon these. :-)
  - obfuscationeso 5y ago
    Hi! I know this is completely unrelated, but hackernews has no PM functions, so I'm posting this here. Schoen, you posted a comment on here a couple of years ago looking for an English translation to a book on obfuscated programming. I could not find much info online about getting an English copy and I also really wanted to read it, so I threw a copy into google translate, and its surprisingly readable. Since you are one of the only people I could find online also looking for an English copy, I just wanted to make you aware of its existence. If you don't care about this at all, sorry for bothering you. If you do care, here is a link: https://obfuscationandesotaric.neocities.org/ https://obfuscationandesotaric.neocities.org/ Have a great day!
    - schoen 5y ago
      Thank you very much; I'm still very curious about that book! I will definitely read this.
eyelidlessness 5y ago
Only speaking for me: because absolute superlatives like “the best” suggest some sort of measurement and methodology which isn’t shown, whereas “optimized for”/“purpose built for” usually has at least some demonstration of the claim attached.

sedatk 5y ago

I think "optimized for desktop, multimedia, and gaming workloads" would convey the message better.

schoen 5y ago
Amusingly, "optimized" originally means "made best". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/optimus#Latin https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/optimus#Latin (But I guess "best" can have a connotation of marketing-speak, while "optimized" can have a connotation of engineering-speak.)
- sedatk 5y ago
  On a parallel note, "optimized" translates to "made best" in Turkish.
  - schoen 5y ago
    There are lots of these with many modern languages, where someone who was familiar with both a foreign language (often a classical or scholarly language) and a local language consciously adapted the vocabulary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calque https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calque It's always fun and satisfying for me to happen upon these. :-)
- obfuscationeso 5y ago
  Hi! I know this is completely unrelated, but hackernews has no PM functions, so I'm posting this here. Schoen, you posted a comment on here a couple of years ago looking for an English translation to a book on obfuscated programming. I could not find much info online about getting an English copy and I also really wanted to read it, so I threw a copy into google translate, and its surprisingly readable. Since you are one of the only people I could find online also looking for an English copy, I just wanted to make you aware of its existence. If you don't care about this at all, sorry for bothering you. If you do care, here is a link: https://obfuscationandesotaric.neocities.org/ https://obfuscationandesotaric.neocities.org/ Have a great day!
  - schoen 5y ago
    Thank you very much; I'm still very curious about that book! I will definitely read this.

eyelidlessness 5y ago

Only speaking for me: because absolute superlatives like “the best” suggest some sort of measurement and methodology which isn’t shown, whereas “optimized for”/“purpose built for” usually has at least some demonstration of the claim attached.