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Re:Building an ARM blade server
on Sunday April 28, 2013 @04:21AM (#5620583)
It depends on the application.
Re:Building an ARM blade server
on Saturday April 27, 2013 @02:30AM (#5617015)
Intel's x86 chips are much faster (although less efficient) because their technology is more advanced, allowing them to fit more transistors. They aren't about to move their products to a reduced instruction set architecture because they have already invested so much in x86 and are so far in the lead that there's not much pressure on them to change. They've got the best talent and an enormous amount of money, allowing them to optimize a non-optimal architecture to beat the rest. It's not clear how long they can keep this up.
Re:Ruby is too slow for programming competitions
on Sunday April 21, 2013 @02:27PM (#5585784)
What is sys time? The amount of time it's actually run on the processor?