Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 Oct 2005 19:48:53 -0400 (EDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: what's next for the linux kernel? |
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On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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.
You haven't explained us why you think your proposal would allow Linux to circumvent Amdahl's law...
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