[LUAU] the backlash against Apple has started, enabled by Ubuntu (*)

Jim Thompson jim at netgate.com
Thu Jun 29 17:05:32 PDT 2006


On Jun 29, 2006, at 1:17 PM, Matt Darnell wrote:

> On 6/29/06, Matt Darnell <mattdarnell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 6/29/06, Jim Thompson <jim at netgate.com> wrote:
>> >  Sure was fun to see linux probe and enable "32" CPUs
>> > (8 threads x 4 cores).
>>
>> How did that run?  Are there any applicaitons you found that could
>> make use of '32' processors?  You can't get blood from a rock, but it
>> seems like if a bunch of apps could have a dedicated 'CPU' it  
>> would be
>> quicker responding.
>>
>> -M
>>
>
> The try-n-buy applicatoin asks this question:
> Is your application multi-threaded with low floating point content?
>
> Anyone know what 'low floating point content' is?

Does your C/Java code contain a lot of "float" or "double"  
variables?   Does it do a lot with them?

If you're running Python, perl or PHP its a bit more difficult to check.

Jim




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