28 Jun
2018
28 Jun
'18
2:58 p.m.
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 10:55:38AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 07:40:17 -0700 Larry McVoy
<lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
You completely missed my point, I never said I was in favor of single
cpu systems, I said I the speed of a single cpu to be fast no matter
how many of them I get. The opposite of wimpy.
Which was, I think, Ted's point as well when he said the market rejected
the idea of lots of wimpy cpus.
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 10:15:38AM -0400,
Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
And yet, there are few single core devices I can buy any more other
than embedded processors. Even the $35 Raspberry Pis are now four core
machines, and I'm sure they'll be eight core devices soon.
If you want a single core Unix machine, you need to buy the $5
Raspberry Pi Zero, which is the only single core Unix box I still can
think of on the market. And the Market spoke. And shortly thereafter,
Java fell under the
control of Oracle.... And Intel would proceed to further
dominate the landscape.
Yep. Lots of cpus are nice when doing a parallel make but there is
always some task that just uses one cpu. And then you want the
fastest one you can get. Lots of wimpy cpus is just, um, wimpy.