🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <12142@watnot.UUCP> ccplumb@watnot.UUCP (Colin Plumb) writes:
>In article <1903@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:
>>>The metrics I'm interested in measure speed.  (Basically, I'm hooked
>>>on fast machines.)  Other constraints are less interesting because:
>>>(1) I will buy the fastest machine I can afford, and (2) in terms of
>>>architecture, speed is the bottom line -- all else is just
>>>mitigating circumstances.
>>
>>I must disagree.  Reliability is at least as important as speed.
>
>I must disagree.  The the idea is to get as much effective speed out of the
>machine as possible.  A machine that is down 50% of the time delivers 1/2
>of its operational speed to the user as throughput. Turnaround time (which is
>what most people are interested in) will suffer more, under most circumstances.

I really fail to see how an immediate or rapid answer you can't trust
is of any use at all.