>> I have a .38 special. Almost every expert, and authority will claim > that I can shoot the occasional +P round in it and it would be > fine.....but then you got to wonder... is this the day the barrel is > going to blow off in my hand. I don't like the feeling that maybe > this time things won't come out right, when I am spending a lot of > time on my work.
What, no car analogy?
Which means what... you aren't trying to make this about me are you?
A little overdramatic, don't you think?
no.... it is the same process. Using a highly engineered device beyond it's specifications with the potential of negative consequences.
While there may be a degree of truth to that (you are assuming that the majority of tasks can be scaled to n cores effectively--a likely fallacious argument), that isn't what you said.
maybe... but that doesn't change the truth of my subsequent statement.
The number of killer apps for 4+ cores will likely remain small into the foreseeable future. Greg
I disagree... at least for the apps that matter to me. But only time will answer that. For me Quad is the value choice. In fact, I am thinking about a Xeon Dual Quad, which is really off the value buy charts!
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