Re: what's next for the linux kernel?

[Jesper Juhl]

On 10/3/05, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law
http://home.wlu.edu/~whaleyt/classes/parallel/topics/amdahl.html

And google has even more. Wonderful thing those search engines...


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