Richard Cownie (tich@pobox.com) on 8/31/07 wrote:
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>Vincent Diepeveen (diep@xs4all.nl) on 8/31/07 wrote:
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>>What latency can we typical expect according to your best guess, when the system is not idle?
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>>Thanks,
>>Vincent
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>I can't put a figure on it. It's just my experience from
>being around various hardware/software developments that
>the way to achieve low latency is to have few layers of
>protocol and be ruthless about keeping it simple. And CSI
>doesn't seem to have that flavor.
>

Well i agree that usually the KISS principle works best, that said, by now most KISS principles have been tried and improving upon it usually means making things more complex.

I definitely see this protocol can save some power from idle nodes and in many companies, servers never get turned off and simply idle 14-23 hours of the day.

Of course in hardware, comes more complexity, comes usually a higher production cost, causing that if you put something to the exponent production costs, then you've got your sales price.

Is this more expensive than HT mainboards to produce?

Best Regards,
Vincent