Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 06:36:32 10/15/99
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On October 15, 1999 at 01:15:17, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>I'm not sure what all the crap about not being creative is. The Deep Thought
>people said for years that massive extensions were the way to go. That was
>fairly creative, seeing as almost all of the micro people disagreed vehemently
>("doesn't work", "it's garbage", "they need it because they have no eval", etc.)
I completely agree.
>And today? Micros are fast enough that we realize healthy doses of extensions
>can improve performance significantly... because the micros of today are,
>speed-wise, where the DT team was already at roughly 10 years ago, and everyone
>can see it for themself.
Weren't they already going at a few million NPS back then? I don't think any
micro is so fast, yet. (Crafty on a multi-CPU Alpha machine would be, though. :)
Jeremiah
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