From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-06-09T07:43:38+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby and mustard

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Conan wrote:

> Can you just use a faster computer?  If your working for a company its a
> good excuse to bug your boss for better hardware, and if your working at
> a university you might be able to convince them to let you use their
> high-performance computer.(every university has at least 1 supercomputer
> right? :) )
>
> The nice thing about code is that your algorithms complexity will be the
> same no matter what language it's written in, so scaling hardware is
> often a nice easy solution. (Unless your already running it on top of
> the line system).

~ > cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep GHz
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz


yes - there ARE four - it's plenty __fast__.  we simply need it to be faster.

;-)


-a
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