Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jun 1998 11:02:01 +0200 | From | Andrej Presern <> | Subject | Re: Remote fork() and Parallel programming |
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mshar@vax.ipm.ac.ir wrote: > >So explain to me how the latency of a 4K transfer is going to be lower > >or the same as a 4 byte transfer (which is all that is required to do > >the same thing in message passing)? > > That is the definition of latency. The times needed to establish a > connection or close it do not depend on the _amount_ of data transfered. > > In _high_speed_ networks, the difference in time for sending 4K bytes and > 4 bytes is negligible in comparison to the time needed to open and close > a connection.
There's an OS manufacturer whose products run very fast on high speed state of the art PCs. Unfortunatelly, I don't have a state of the art PC, nor do I want to buy a new one every year, so I want to squeeze the most out from what I've got. Besides, Linux runs faster than the mentioned OS on a state of the art PC, so I'd prefer to run Linux if I needed a state of the art PC to get the job done in the first place. I'm sorry, but this is a new age of rational thinking where every little bit counts. And it's my rational thinking that wasted resources gradually add up.
Andrej
-- Andrej Presern, andrejp@luz.fe.uni-lj.si
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