Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 02 Oct 2005 19:32:00 -0400 | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: what's next for the linux kernel? |
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On Sunday 02 October 2005 18:43, Robert Hancock wrote: >Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> and, what is the linux kernel? >> >> it's a daft, monolithic design that is suitable and faster on >> single-processor systems, and that design is going to look _really_ >> outdated, really soon. > >Well, it sounds like it works pretty well on such things as 512 CPU >Altix systems, so it sounds like the suggestion that Linux is designed >solely for single-processor systems and isn't suitable for multicore, >hyperthreaded CPUs doesn't hold much water..
Ahh, yes and no, Robert. The un-answered question, for that 512 processor Altix system, would be "but does it run things 512 times faster?" Methinks not, by a very wide margin. Yes, do a lot of unrelated things fast maybe, but render a 30 megabyte page with ghostscript in 10 milliseconds? Never happen IMO.
And Christoph in the next msg, calls him 1/2 drunk. He doesn't come across to me as being more than 1 beer drunk. And he does make some interesting points, so if they aren't valid, lets use proveable logic to shoot them down, not name calling and pointless rhetoric.
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