On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 03:44:07PM +0100, Bhima Pandava wrote: > Interesting. > > I had assumed that hardware accelerators kept more or less the same > pace of improvement as general purpose CPUs. Can you point to any > literature that shows that it doesn't?
No, my information is merely gleaned from reading mailing lists and I'm not using hw acceleration. For all I know you may be right, and there are very fast accelerators out there. My point is that for common tasks any recent desktop/server hardware is fine. VPNing a few offices together should not present a challenge to a modern processor, so adding acceleration would be a waste. If your demand is high, or your hardware is underpowered then that's different. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ |
