Re: what's next for the linux kernel?

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 02 October 2005 19:48, Rik van Riel wrote:
>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...

Amdahl's Law?

Thats a reference I don't believe I've been made aware of.  Can you
elaborate?
  
Besides, it isn't my proposal, just a question in that I chose a
scenario (ghostscripts rendering of a page of text) that in fact only
runs maybe 10x faster on an XP-2800 Athlon with a gig of dram than it
did on my old 25 mhz 68040 equipt amiga with 64 megs of dram.  
With 64 megs of dram, so it wasn't nearly as memory bound doing that
as most of the Amiga's were.

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