Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932210AbVJCJjy (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 05:39:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932212AbVJCJjy (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 05:39:54 -0400 Received: from qproxy.gmail.com ([72.14.204.196]:1059 "EHLO qproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932210AbVJCJjx convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 05:39:53 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=qUIgUuVb/ekWg3Hxyw823mS7/fKKu4vI8jNFHeBwq+PKM9kabqhhmXy0kZnjTWqwH3hfOplF/+oZ0XRJ3WBQeqTLQe9EYxmHBGiaxyyS0DkcvBxyJ/GCZZFMUcoUlQz0MlZiT1t79TvdIPGxbXiMyJiQ19u1IL1dkXbj0JATIHQ= Message-ID: <9a8748490510030239m2ef276a9w7949bcba1f705038@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 11:39:52 +0200 From: Jesper Juhl Reply-To: Jesper Juhl To: Gene Heskett Subject: Re: what's next for the linux kernel? Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200510022350.54640.gene.heskett@verizon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <4TiWy-4HQ-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <200510021932.00969.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <200510022350.54640.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1222 Lines: 29 On 10/3/05, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 02 October 2005 19:48, Rik van Riel wrote: > >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... > > Amdahl's Law? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law http://home.wlu.edu/~whaleyt/classes/parallel/topics/amdahl.html And google has even more. Wonderful thing those search engines... -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - 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/