Re: *** Draft 5 - Press Release ***

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Wed, 20 Jan 1999 02:35:53 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 jmm@raleigh.ibm.com wrote:

> b) "gives good performance on 12 processor" implies to me as a consumer
> poor performance from 13 to 64 :) or maybe even 2-11...

Supports != scales well. Different bottlenecks come into play on different
sizes. I don't know where the number 12 came from, but your change
excludes scalability problems at all. Dishonest. OTOH 'good performance'
says nothing, so... <shrug>

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