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Jason Solinsky  ...

> In how many of these examples are we actually concerned with processor
> performance?  In editors and word processors we certainly aren't ...
> In the case of a database, I would not expect it to be processor limited.

As you have more cycles to fool with you get to put more function in,
of course.  So where I previously edited nroff source with ed, I now
use a system like Framemaker with X-windows.  Database systems are
typically CPU bound because disks have been slow forever, so the problem
of disk parallelism has already been tackled.  Besides, if you analyze
the popular transaction benchmarks you can see that the disk bandwidth
required is relatively small, assuming reasonably-sized buffer pools.
For complex queries, there's even more processing to do and more opportunity
for smart data placement on disk and sequential prefetch.
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Kurt Shoens