By: Michael S (already5chosen.delete@this.yahoo.com), July 1, 2013 8:57 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
anon (anon.delete@this.anon.com) on July 1, 2013 1:45 am wrote:
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> The ironic part of this is that Linus believes in the market when it suits his worldview
> ("market decided x86 is better than xyz despite some bickering from people in ivory towers,
> therefore your technical arguments are simply masturbation"). On the other hand, he is quite
> sure that the market is wrong to be driving floating point performance in this way.
>
IMHO, not less ironic is that the rant came from designer of the OS that after 20 years of intensive development succeeded to become the industry standard in one and only one major field of computing - massively-parallel FP calculations.
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> The ironic part of this is that Linus believes in the market when it suits his worldview
> ("market decided x86 is better than xyz despite some bickering from people in ivory towers,
> therefore your technical arguments are simply masturbation"). On the other hand, he is quite
> sure that the market is wrong to be driving floating point performance in this way.
>
IMHO, not less ironic is that the rant came from designer of the OS that after 20 years of intensive development succeeded to become the industry standard in one and only one major field of computing - massively-parallel FP calculations.
