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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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> Please Larry, have a look at the environment: nobody here owns a box  
> with 128 CPUs. Most of the people here take care of things they either
> - own themselves                                                      
> - have their hands own at work                                        
> - get paid for                                                        
>                                                                       
> You will not find _any_ match with 128 CPUs here.                     

Nor will you find any match with 4 or 8 CPU systems, except in very rare
cases.  Yet changes go into the system for 8 way and 16 way performance.
That's a mistake.

I'd be ecstatic if the hackers limited themselves to what was commonly 
available, that is essentially what I'm arguing for.  
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Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 
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