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Date: Mon,  7 Sep 2009 00:26:06 +0200
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From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] "Blocks" in C
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On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:54 PM, erik quanstrom<quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote=
:
>> Plan 9 has a lot to offer and a lot for others to learn from. Concurrenc=
y
>> framework that could scale up to 1K [virtual]cores in an SMP
>> configuration is not one of those features though.
>
> forgive the ignorance, but is there any such thing as a
> 1k-core smp machine? =C2=A0and is apple doing such a thing?
>
> even commodity intel and amd mp offerings are numa.
> they're not very n, but they're still n.

That, and I still don't see how C 'blocks' solve the problem in question.

But I'm dumber than the Apple geniuses, and grateful for my stupidity.

uriel