Time to think about parallel Smalltalk stuff

Alan Grimes alangrimes at starpower.net
Tue Jan 18 18:22:41 UTC 2005


Tim Rowledge wrote:

>Given that current high-end cpus like P4 and G5 take many, many amps
>(50 - 100) to achieve a 'mere' 2-3GHz and high-end ARM type cpus take
>about 50mA for 800MHz, I think there might be some interesting options
>for say a hundred ARMs working together. Event if one only achieves 20%
>effectiveness you'd get serious compute power for 5A or so. 
>  
>

=)

YAY!!!!!
Now I can stop trolling about paralellizing the VM.




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