Re: Hardware, Cores, Licenses
From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:10:18 +0200
Message-ID: <a8t1orFehlU1_at_mid.individual.net>
On 13.08.2012 18:22, Mladen Gogala wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 08:59:31 -0700, joel garry wrote:
>
>> Sometimes moving to faster hardware makes poor code perform worse,
>
> The speed of waiting is the same for all systems. Corollary: your shiny
> dual 64bit CPU quad-core 3.6 GHZ Dell system will wait as fast as an old
> 32 bit i586 based system.
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:10:18 +0200
Message-ID: <a8t1orFehlU1_at_mid.individual.net>
On 13.08.2012 18:22, Mladen Gogala wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 08:59:31 -0700, joel garry wrote:
>
>> Sometimes moving to faster hardware makes poor code perform worse,
>
> The speed of waiting is the same for all systems. Corollary: your shiny
> dual 64bit CPU quad-core 3.6 GHZ Dell system will wait as fast as an old
> 32 bit i586 based system.
We could also say it waits faster - but we can't observe it. Heisenberg for CPU wait states...
;-)
robert
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