Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 17:11:05 08/20/03
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On August 20, 2003 at 03:21:54, Johan de Koning wrote: >On August 19, 2003 at 13:40:25, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>On August 19, 2003 at 10:29:51, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On August 18, 2003 at 12:08:35, Christophe Theron wrote: > >[snip, CT next] > >>>>Less than 5% of all the computers on the planet will have more than one CPU in >>>>10 years from now. > >[snip, RH next] > >>>And no, I don't care about palms and the like. I'm talking about the >>>traditional desktop/laptop PC. Times they are a'changing... >> >>Yes I knew we were not talking about the same population. You don't care about >>the million of handhelds out there, you don't care about 400 to 500 million >>mobile phones sold each year... >> >>That's fine with me. It's just your philosophy so there is nothing to argue. >>It's just that there are also people out there who care about the population you >>have chosen to not count in your stats. > >In all fairness Chris, performance *was* the topic here. > >Number of units doesn't mean anything. I can easily predict that in 10 years >time less then 5% off the mammals will have tusks. Or let's make it less then >1e-6. But if you're in the tree moving business you don't care about mice. > >We all have our favourite subjects I guess. >(And some seem to have an awful lot of them :-) > >... Johan It's just that sometimes I wonder what performance is worth when it matters to a population of 10 people at most. :) BTW thanks to you I have learned a new english word: "tusk". Fortunately I'm at my office and have my big english dictionnary at hand here (I *must* go to Handango and purchase one for my Palm). Christophe
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