From: Kevin Grittner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Oct 5, 2005 2:16 AM Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Is There Any Way ....
>First off, Mr. Trainor's response proves nothing about anyone or >anything except Mr. Trainor. > Fair Enough. I apologize for the inappropriately general statement. >I'm going to offer an opinion on the caching topic. I don't have >any benchmarks; I'm offering a general sense of the issue based on >decades of experience, so I'll give a short summary of that. > >I've been earning my living by working with computers since 1972, > ~1978 for me. So to many on this list, I also would be an "old fart". <description of qualifications snipped> > I've pretty much spent my entire career thinking about and making advances in RW distributed computing and parallel processing as first a programmer and then a systems architect. >Now on to the meat of it. <excellent and fair handed overall analysis snipped> > I agree with your comments just about across the board. I also agree with the poster(s) who noted that the "TLC factor" and the 2x every 18months pace of increasing HW performance and RAM capacity make this stuff a moving target. OTOH, there are some fundamentals that don't seem to change no matter how far or fast the computing field evolves. As usual, the proper answers involve finding a sometimes nontrivial balance between building on known precedent and not being trapped by doctrine. Ron ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
