By: bandwidth (no.delete@this.email.com), October 27, 2006 6:47 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Linus Torvalds (torvalds@osdl.org) on 10/27/06 wrote:
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>The problem with a lot of RISC stuff was that it took a
>statistical approach to something that in the end isn't
>even all that statistical - it doesn't matter one whit
>how fast something is "on average", what matters is how
>fast something is for me (for any arbitrary value
>of "me").
Your argument boils down to this: rather than doing a limited number of common things very quickly, let's choose to do everything equally slow, because that is "robust."
>This is why you should not have special cases, and
>instead say: everything we do is fast.
Because trade-offs do not exist in Linus' world, and everyone has cake which they can eat.
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>The problem with a lot of RISC stuff was that it took a
>statistical approach to something that in the end isn't
>even all that statistical - it doesn't matter one whit
>how fast something is "on average", what matters is how
>fast something is for me (for any arbitrary value
>of "me").
Your argument boils down to this: rather than doing a limited number of common things very quickly, let's choose to do everything equally slow, because that is "robust."
>This is why you should not have special cases, and
>instead say: everything we do is fast.
Because trade-offs do not exist in Linus' world, and everyone has cake which they can eat.