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Understanding Bandwidth and Latency
M. Woodrow, Jr. writes "Ars has a very eye-opening article on the real causes of bandwidth latency and why we should just drool endlessly over maximum throughput issues. In particular, I think the author's look into the PowerPC 970 and the P4's frontside bus is interesting considering how we're constantly being told by marketers that more speed is always going to translate into massive performance gains. The issue is, of course, far more complex, and this article does a good job of thinking about the problem from an almost platform agnostic point of view."
latency causes there to already be 100 posts when you bring up the comments page ... and you thought you were first! :)
There was a guy who demonstrated a way to transmit data over the electromagnetic field surrounding every powerline. ALl you do is plug your computer into a power outlet, basically. The throughput was incredible, and latency everywhere would be under 10ms, as they demonstrated.
Anyone hear from these guys lately, or at least know a url, if they havn't been bought out be the telecoms?
... once wrote:
Never underestimate the bandwith of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
The latency is terrible, though.
Wow it sure is nice,
To be able to read a 2 page long comment.
Especially when it wold only normally be a small paragraph.
Except that the author thought that it wasn't long enough.
So they typed it like this,
And made everyone hate them.
The linux kernel guys pay attention to these thigns and code for them by hand. Hence their badass performance
11*43+456^2