Friday, May 12, 2000, 1:41:25 PM, Tom wrote:
> I'd rather waste CPU cycles decompressing than wait the extra time it
> takes to load (given the orders of magnitude of speed difference
> between reading off of disk versus out of L2 cache)
Being, what, exactly? A magnitude of difference, sure. We're talking the
difference between ms and ns. In fact, < 1ms difference. IE, you, as a
human, cannot tell the difference either way.
> but call me ridiculous. Processor sitting in an idle loop isn't any
> different (in terms wear and tear) than it is decompressing data, the only
> difference is the time it takes to do it.
Your processor is sitting in an idle loop?
*Steve look at his NT desktop. Winamp, ICQ, 3 TB! windows on this
desktop, Opera on another, Exceed with 3-4 xterms on a third desktop, rc5
cracking in the background.*
*Steve thinks to his home 98 machine with more than that open all the
time.*
Idle loop? What is that?
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