Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751154AbVJBXtI (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 19:49:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751157AbVJBXtI (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 19:49:08 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:62863 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751154AbVJBXtH (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 19:49:07 -0400 Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 19:48:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@cuia.boston.redhat.com To: Gene Heskett cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: what's next for the linux kernel? In-Reply-To: <200510021932.00969.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Message-ID: References: <4TiWy-4HQ-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <4340627F.6010303@shaw.ca> <200510021932.00969.gene.heskett@verizon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 734 Lines: 18 On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Gene Heskett wrote: > Ahh, yes and no, Robert. The un-answered question, for that > 512 processor Altix system, would be "but does it run things 512 > times faster?" Methinks not, by a very wide margin. Yes, do a lot > of unrelated things fast maybe, but render a 30 megabyte page with > ghostscript in 10 milliseconds? Never happen IMO. You haven't explained us why you think your proposal would allow Linux to circumvent Amdahl's law... -- All Rights Reversed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/