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"When a proposal to change a certain parameter is thought to have bad overall consequences, consider a change to the same parameter in the opposite direction. If this is also thought to have bad overall consequences..."

How is speeding up kernel build times a "bad overall consequence"? Thats exactly what Linus is trying to do.

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Except Linus is not addressing that problem directly. If he was, he would probably be writing a make he'd be satisfied with. Instead, he's working on page faults.

Speeding up page faults does _directly_ improve build times. I don't understand why you think writing yet another make is the obvious direct fix, but fixing page faults is not. Or why you think Linus shouldn't fix things he is clearly interested in.

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