On Apr 28, 2009, at 5:13 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

Andrew McNabb wrote:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 04:49:35PM -0600, Kimball Larsen wrote:

and there are some functions that will be hit > 17k times (yes, THOUSAND).


And you think the solution is to add more hardware?

Wow.

According to a misapplication of Moore's Law, in 18 months that 17k will be down to 8.5k effective function calls. And a few years after that, it will be down around 2k. So just sit tight and let the magical hardware vendors sort it out.

--Dave

Sweet. I'll tell my wife it's time for a vacation. It will pay for itself by the time we are back from it.
- Kimball
http://www.kimballlarsen.com


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