hyper threading.

[em1897 at aol.com]

No, I think the biggest changes are that

1) Processor speed is rarely the key limiting factor

and

2) Memory efficiency is much less a concern.

In the old days if you weren't a very good programmer
 you did something else. Today anyone can
crank out code that works (linux anyone?). And
processors are so fast that most people don't notice,
as is evidenced by this thread.

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony at wanadoo.fr>
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Sent: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 22:20:31 +0200
Subject: Re: hyper threading.

em1897 at aol.com writes:

> Thats because you seem unable to grasp modern concepts.

None were under discussion.

> If you think that performance criteria
> of modern controllers and processors are the same
> as 30 years ago, then you are incapable of commenting
> on anything modern.

The principles of "modern" controllers are surprisingly similar to those
of "old" controllers.  The biggest change is that the PC world is only
now discovering what mainframe designers knew 40 years ago.

--
Anthony


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