From: David Pollak <pollak@...>
Date: 2006-07-27T01:28:18+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, write it in C

Greg,

In spreadsheets, it is cutting edge.  Name one other commercial
spreadsheet that can use more than 1 CPU?

David

On 7/26/06, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/26/06, David Pollak <pollak@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > In addition, because Java has nice semantics for multithreading, I was
> > able to implement some very cleaver algorithms such that Integer's
> > recalculation speed scales nearly linearly with additional CPUs up to
> > a certain point (the linearity goes away at around 16 processors on a
> > big Sun box.)  But I digress.
>
> This must be evidence of true cutting edge development ;)
>
>


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