Re: Hardware, Cores, Licenses

From: Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:22:41 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <pan.2012.08.13.16.22.11_at_gmail.com>



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.

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Received on Mon Aug 13 2012 - 11:22:41 CDT

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