> > If only a T2 based workstation could be produced at > a > > reasonable price > > including a decent basic graphics card (and these > > days I think "basic" > > should _include_ some 3D acceleration as well as > the > > capability and bandwidth > > to drive full 1080p video), I think that would > kick > > tail as a workstation. > > Hmmm... that'd be a close shave. Having worked with > UltraSPARC T2s quite a bit, I'd say that the T2 is > still pretty weak for the desktop workloads, > precisely because of his single-thread performance. > You'd have to have software that was highly optimized > for either threading, or that was designed around > spawning child processes ala Apache httpd or ISC's > named.
Java and browsers are already multithreaded, as is nscd, so a number of fairly routine things could be happening in parallel already, which is why I _guess_ that it might be pleasantly surprising, depending on what one was doing. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
