From: dave.l@mac.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] FTQ benchmark available
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:58:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3367CDE1-DFE2-48F4-A8D3-BF36BF0EAEDA@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7d3530220804111738v2c3aae2cl44afe70af558fddc@mail.gmail.com>
> Actually, in Real Computing, aka "not on your desktop", some groups
> such as, oh, IBM and the US Government (you may have heard of them)
> care about how fast a OS can perform in this kind of thing. They don't
> care about word processors, spreadsheets, web browsers, any of the
> stuff Joe Windowsuser will bitch about; what they really want is fast
> execution of parallel programs... and probably FORTRAN 77.
You and Ron are right.
Also, I didn't really understand what FTQ was trying to measure ...
I'll shut up and go write some drivers.
DaveL
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-13 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-10 17:09 john
2008-04-10 17:22 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-04-10 17:28 ` john
2008-04-10 17:58 ` ron minnich
2008-04-10 18:25 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-04-10 18:30 ` ron minnich
2008-04-10 21:05 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-04-10 21:28 ` john
2008-04-10 21:33 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-04-11 1:13 ` ron minnich
2008-04-11 2:15 ` erik quanstrom
2008-04-11 3:17 ` ron minnich
2008-04-12 0:23 ` dave.l
2008-04-12 0:35 ` ron minnich
2008-04-12 0:38 ` John Floren
2008-04-13 17:58 ` dave.l [this message]
2008-04-12 9:18 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-04-10 19:39 Matthew Sottile
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