[TUHS] PDP-11 legacy, C, and modern architectures

[Tim Bradshaw]

On 28 Jun 2018, at 17:02, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> But when you are doing real work, sorting
> the genome, machine learning, whatever, performance is a thing and
> lots of wimpy cpus are not.

But lots of (relatively) wimpy CPUs is what physics says you will have and you really can't argue with physics.

I think this is definitely off-topic now so I won't reply further: feel free to mail me privately.