> I often tell my students that every cycle used by overhead > (kernel, UI, etc) is a cycle taken away from doing the work > of applications. I'd much rather have my DNA sequencing > application finish in 25 days instead of 30 than to have > the system look pretty during those 30 days.
i didn't mean to imply we should not be frugal with cycles. i ment to say that we simply don't have anything useful to do with a vast majority of cycles, and that's just as wasteful as doing bouncing icons. we need to work on that problem. > > that, plus the fact that the the mhz wars are dead and > > gone. > > Does that mean we're all playing core wars now? :) yes it does. i've got $50 that says that in 2011 we'll be saying that this one goes to eleven (cores). - erik
