From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20091021154323.GA10118@nipl.net> References: <4030fb6ae37f8ca8ae9c43ceefbdf57b@ladd.quanstro.net> <20091019155738.GB13857@nipl.net> <4ADD1D76.8050603@maht0x0r.net> <20091021154323.GA10118@nipl.net> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:01:27 -0700 Message-ID: <13426df10910211101g655135ffxd0709fff1338d43d@mail.gmail.com> From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Barrelfish Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8d8edada-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Sam Watkins wrote: > =A0People do this stuff every day. > Have you heard of a render-farm? Yes, and some of them are on this list, and have actually done this sort of work, as you clearly have not. Else you would understand where the limits on parallelism are in parallel encoding of MPEG-2, and why, in fact, one useful good thing to know about a two hour movie is that the limit on parallelism might be, oh, say around 240. Had you done it, or come close to doing it, or given some indication that you have some approximation of a clue as to what is involved in doing it, you might be getting a little less argument. > I'm not sure why I'm wasting time writing about this, it's obvious anyway= . It is obvious. It's obviously wrong. It's obviously not informed by experience. It's obvious you are enthusiastic about this type of thing but need to learn more about it. The enthusiasm is admirable anyway ... ron