Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Jul 1998 18:00:16 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Memory Rusting Effect [re: Linux hostile to poverty] |
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On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, John Alvord wrote:
>Keeping it running on rusty old PCs has a significant benefit, *if* >the programming effort isn't too high. When a system runs fine on low end >machines it will fly on high end machines. Inefficiences that are masked ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I mainly agree but it' s not always true. For example there are algorithms that run in O(n*log(n)) but use the double of memory. These algorithms could be slower in a machine that will need to swapout everything to run, but they will be very very faster in a machine with a lot of memory.
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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