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Garth Brown (Skylight Software) <v-garthb@microsoft.com>Tue, 29 Mar 94 15:23:07 PST
The author stated use of 8 processors and "aggressive vectorization",
or, IOW, Using the 8 processors in conjunction instead of as 8 separate
data paths, making their co-operative speed MUCH faster than
an 8X increase.
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| From: Adam Shostack <netmail!adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
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| Could someone explain why jumping to 8 processors knocks the
| time down by a factor of 400, instead of a factor of 8? Is the 400
| billion years a load of crap, intended to sound more impressive than
| 8?
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