Re: Scaling noise

[Samium Gromoff]

> > It's called asymptotic behavior.  After a while you can look at the graph
> > and see that more CPUs on the same memory doesn't make sense.  It hasn't
> > made sense for a decade, what makes anyone think that is changing?
> 
> It didnt make sense two decades ago either, the VAX 8300 could be made to 
> go 6way and it stopped going faster around the third processor added.

  It doesn`t dismiss the increasing disbalance between cpu/memory speeds, which is
  way more fundamental than the possible technical glitches with experimental
  SMP on VAXes.

regards, Samium Gromoff
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