Earth is a very interesting planet.
A thought experiment: serial vs parallel
We have two supermarkets, A and B. At supermarket A, there is one fast cashier, who can handle 10 normal customers per hour. At the other, there are two slow cashiers, who can each handle 5 normal customers per hour. Each store can therefore handle 10 normal customers per hour.
via Hacker News
Not sure how SSDs come into this, but the thought experiment is interesting. I think it mostly hinges on how well we can parallelize our code, really.
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jasonwyatt reblogged this from nonowarn and added:
For normal customers serial makes just as much sense as parallel. But the parallel case could handle more throughput...
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qliu reblogged this from nonowarn and added:
Not sure how SSDs come into this, but the thought experiment is interesting. I think it mostly hinges on how well we can...
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