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A comment on Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989). Parent comment

Re:Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989) by User23 on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @10:37PM (#24139413)
That’s not obviously absurd. If Amdahl’s law permits then Little’s law tells you whether or not it’s possible.
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Re:Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989) by projektfu on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @10:47PM (#24139477)
Yep. As I said I’m not smart.
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Re:Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989) by hawkesnest on Thursday August 13, 2020 @11:05AM (#24144051)
Wow, you are really good at this.

Let the "geniuses" figure out that to do 10k transactions/sec with processes that can handle 1 transaction/sec would take.....10k processes. Sure, doable, in specific contexts, given enough resources. But they sure as heck aren't free resources!

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