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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] PDP-11 legacy, C, and modern architectures
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 07:40:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180628144017.GB21688@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180628141538.GB663@thunk.org>

On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 10:15:38AM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> And the Market spoke.  And shortly thereafter, Java fell under the
> control of Oracle....  And Intel would proceed to further dominate the
> landscape.

Yep.  Lots of cpus are nice when doing a parallel make but there is 
always some task that just uses one cpu.  And then you want the fastest
one you can get.  Lots of wimpy cpus is just, um, wimpy.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-28 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-26 17:54 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2018-06-26 18:03 ` Cornelius Keck
2018-06-26 21:21   ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2018-06-26 21:56   ` Kurt H Maier
2018-06-26 18:52 ` Ronald Natalie
2018-06-26 19:01 ` Ronald Natalie
2018-06-26 21:16   ` Arthur Krewat
2018-06-26 21:50     ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-26 21:54       ` Ronald Natalie
2018-06-26 21:59         ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-26 22:20           ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-26 22:33             ` Arthur Krewat
2018-06-26 23:53               ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-27  8:30             ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-26 22:33           ` Andy Kosela
2018-06-27  0:11             ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-27  6:10               ` arnold
2018-06-27  2:18           ` [TUHS] PDP-11 legacy, C, and modern architectTures Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-06-27  2:22             ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-06-28 14:36             ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-06-27 11:26         ` [TUHS] PDP-11 legacy, C, and modern architectures Tony Finch
2018-06-27 14:33           ` Clem Cole
2018-06-27 14:38             ` Clem Cole
2018-06-27 15:30             ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-27 16:55               ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-27  6:27     ` arnold
2018-06-27 16:00 ` Steve Johnson
2018-06-28  4:12   ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-28 14:15     ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-06-28 14:40       ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2018-06-28 14:55         ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 14:58           ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-28 15:39             ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-28 16:02               ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-28 16:41                 ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-28 16:59                   ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-28 17:09                   ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-29 15:32                     ` tfb
2018-06-29 16:09                       ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-29 17:51                       ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-29 18:27                         ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-29 19:02                         ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 20:37                 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 15:37         ` Clem Cole
2018-06-28 20:37           ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-06-28 14:43       ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 14:56         ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-28 15:07           ` Warner Losh
2018-06-28 19:42           ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 19:55             ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-28 20:42             ` Warner Losh
2018-06-28 21:03               ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 22:29                 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-06-29  0:18                   ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-29 15:41                     ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-29 18:01                       ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-29 19:07                         ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-29  5:58                   ` Michael Kjörling
2018-06-28 20:52             ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-06-28 21:07               ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 16:45       ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-28 20:47         ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-29 15:43         ` emanuel stiebler
2018-06-29  2:02       ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-29 12:58         ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-06-29 18:41           ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-29  1:02 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-29  1:06 Noel Chiappa

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