Bryan J. Smith wrote:
Lamar Owen lowen@pari.edu wrote:
The world that shows that, if 3 is less than 4, then 3 is also less than 10.
SPARC and Xeon are not comparable in generalities. Xeon and Opteron are not comparable in generalities.
No, they are not completely different. Last time I checked, they both executed instructions,
Are you for real?
Bryan, may I speak as a friend?
I think that the thread about yum has gotten you (somewhat) understandably agitated, and it's starting to spill over a little into other areas. I suggest that you back off and relax with a cold one (it's 5:00 here in Dallas), and start over tomorrow.
I have no idea about this thread, since I'm not a CPU expert. I have written code with spinlocks for multiprocessors, but that's about it. My main experience is with MIMD loosely-coupled, not tightly-coupled. So I'm not going to comment on the thread in general. I will say that it is pretty ridiculous to claim that two processors are essentially the same because they are both stored-program machines.
Anyway, maybe things are just getting a bit much for you today. I know that they have for me a few times.
Mike