<quote who="DE LUCA Ben"> > > If you need to handle more load, throw another cpu, more ram or another > > box at the problem. > > Some times this is not possible, that even a 0.1% increase in performance > is worth it.
If you're talking about film, audio or image processing, 3d rendering, or anything that has a high applicability of line-by-line intensive maths/loop optimisations, then sure, you may find some advantage here, if your volume is large enough that 0.1% would have a reasonable effect. This would be appropriate at a rendering farm at Dreamworks, or a content creator's 3d imaging preview software, rather than Mum's MP3 encoder. If you're talking about number crunching stock market data, doing massive biotech database mangling, running a huge Internet indexing and spidering system, or mapping the moon, you can make algorithmic or architectural changes to your code - potentially using 'grid' or distributed processing, or whatever the latest craze is. This is big stuff that humans do, not compilers. If you're talking about a mail server, you can change a DNS record and add a machine to the pool. And indeed, this was the original poster's problem area. Don't believe the hype. - Jeff -- Get Informed: SCO vs. IBM http://sco.iwethey.org/ "Think video. Think text flickering over your walls. Think games at work. Think anything where a staid, link-based browser is useless." "This person wrote for Ab Fab, right?" - Rich Welykochy -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
