Re: floating point and Sun T2000

From: Connor McDonald <mcdonald.connor_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 21:52:32 +0800
Message-ID: <5e3048620605080652u56b00538p58b29743684c0c3d@mail.gmail.com>

On 5/6/06, Kevin Closson <kevinc_at_polyserve.com> wrote:
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> ...in that case there are no other FPUs to send "it" to, and most
> importantly there
> is no "it" to send ( other than BINARY_FLOAT/ BINARY_DOUBLE which I
> contend
> still have nothing to do with scalability).
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Or in other words, if your app is so brilliantly architected and designed that you've eliminated all the bottlenecks in scalability and performance to the extent that only floating point speed remains as your issue....you're probably doing better than most!

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