From: Carl Youngblood <carl@...>
Date: 2004-06-10T01:43:27+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby and mustard

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).
>
I think the problem here is that if they could get it to process 100 
pictures a second, that would be better.  They want to squeeze as much 
performance per CPU as possible, since any wait time is more than 
ideal.  So if you get heavier iron, then they are going to want to use 
it to process that many more pictures, and you're left with the same 
problem you started with.