From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Tim Bradshaw <tfb@tfeb.org>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] PDP-11 legacy, C, and modern architectures
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 10:09:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180628170955.GH21688@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <79022674-0FFA-4B1B-8A27-4C403D51540E@tfeb.org>
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 05:41:24PM +0100, Tim Bradshaw wrote:
> On 28 Jun 2018, at 17:02, Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
> > But when you are doing real work, sorting
> > the genome, machine learning, whatever, performance is a thing and
> > lots of wimpy cpus are not.
>
> But lots of (relatively) wimpy CPUs is what physics says you will have
> and you really can't argue with physics.
I'm not sure how people keep missing the original point. Which was:
the market won't choose a bunch of wimpy cpus when it can get faster
ones. It wasn't about the physics (which I'm not arguing with), it
was about a choice between lots of wimpy cpus and a smaller number of
fast cpus. The market wants the latter, as Ted said, Sun bet heavily
on the former and is no more.
If you want to bet on what Sun did, feel free, but do so knowing that
people have tried to tell you that is a failed approach.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-28 17:10 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
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 [this message]
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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