> esoteric network interfaces combined with a single 700 MHz simple > embedded in-order processor.
there's actually some parallelism inside that processor: it's not that simple-minded, just a little slow for what it's asked to do (even if there's no work to be done on the data). >That being said however, any advantages we can get on the relatively >slow hardware should benefit the efficiency (if not the latency and >performance) of the faster i think there's quite a bit of scope for performance improvements without doing violence to the overall structure or messing up the implementation. i hope some things end up being smaller and cleaner.
