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Subject: Re: New crap statement ? Perpetuum mobile

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:56:39 10/04/01

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On October 04, 2001 at 18:36:29, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>>
>You can always rewrite the sequential algorithm, because you can simulate the
>parallel one.  Any simulation overhead will be swamped by measurement error.
>
>Dave


The overhead could be almost zero on the right hardware anyway.  The old
xerox sigma 9 could run two threads with no headache, since it had two
completely separate sets of 16 registers...

The hardware issue is simply a non-issue when talking about speedups...  and
super-linear speedups in particular...



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