Linus Torvalds Lands A 2.6% Performance Improvement With Minor Linux Kernel Patch

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Meanwhile Microsoft; how can we bog down this OS even more?
- Our patch improves data harvesting speed by 13%!
  
  Great! That means we can harvest 20% more customer data with only 7% more slowdown!
  -some MS exec, probably.
... in one benchmark.
- 2.6% increase in thread ops when copying data from user space seems pretty significant.