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Article #495Re: Appliance benchmark?
From: Kevin Reynolds
Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 00:00
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> In article <3ptibv$kb7@larry.rice.edu> vivek@cs.rice.edu (Vivek Sadananda Pai) writes: > >In article <3ps8h3$88l@lsi.lsil.com>, gjb@lsil.com (gary bridgewater) writes: > >|> In article <3pqu2u$o5s@supernova.netapp.com> hitz@netapp.com (Dave Hitz) writes: > >|> >My toaster can toast 2 slices of bread in 42 seconds. My neighbor has > >|> >one that can toast 4 slices of bread at once but it takes 67 seconds. > >|> > > >|> >Response time or throughput? The eternal dilemma. > >|> > >|> Buy a second 2-slice toaster. > >|> > >|> Time versus money? The eternal conundrum. > > > >Squish your 4 slices so they take the space of 2, then > >toast them in your fast 2-slice toaster. > >Compression's been around for a long time. > > > >Size vs speed? The eternal doughnut. > > Toast the first two slices, and while eating them, toast the second > two ones. Pipelining is the happening thing. > > > Juhana Is that what you call Reduced Instruction Set Toasting (RIST)?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f57db,4f890e87081395d5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf57db,public X-Google-Thread: fde77,38111c6eb88661cf X-Google-Attributes: gidfde77,public X-Google-Thread: fbad3,4f890e87081395d5 X-Google-Attributes: gidfbad3,public X-Google-Thread: 1693c8,f4e8c35fd1530a1d X-Google-Attributes: gid1693c8,public X-Google-Thread: 10e1c8,4f890e87081395d5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e1c8,public From: Kevin Reynolds <kreynold@colsa.com> Subject: Re: Appliance benchmark? Date: 1995/05/25 Message-ID: <3q2fud$ip6@polo.iquest.com> X-Deja-AN: 103253556 distribution: world references: <D8uBn3.FLw@world.std.com> <3pqu2u$o5s@supernova.netapp.com> <JUHANA.95May25150835@ebri01.ebri01.ebara.co.jp> organization: interQuest: Fuel for the Mind newsgroups: comp.arch.storage,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.benchmarks,comp.nfs.sex,gnu.emacs.sex