The number of Java developers continues to grow. It is phenomenally successful..NET on the other hand, is merely the next Windows API, paying lip-service to openness and portability. I don't doubt that.NET development is growing, however it is not replacing Java. Far from it..NET does not even begin to address the problems that Java solves.
If such a mission, close to home, is considered too much of a risk to astronaut lives, then I have to wonder about plans for a manned Mars expedition.
The risk from the close-to-home mission comes from using the Space Shuttle. Those risks disappear when going to Mars, to be replaced by entirely new ones.
Don't get too excited about the itanium benchmarks. There is an interesting discusstion here about them. It's worth noting that CPU performance can often be vastly improved simply by increasing the amount of on-chip cache. This is what's largely resposible for some of the itanium's high scores, and not the supposedly brilliant VLIW instruction set architecture.
I was talking to some Novell engineers at Linux World. They all love watcom.
Perhaps that's because Netware was written in Watcom C? Netware was very impressive in its day (late eighties, early nineties) having many features that we take for granted in Linux today. Watcom's C compiler used to be the best on the market for PeeCees, and could produce flat, 32-bit code for DOS extenders back when Microsoft C was still messing about in 16 bits. If you wanted to write an NLM for Netware, you used Watcom. It also targetted OS/2. Those were the days.
The safe bet is to claim you believe in an afterlife, whether you do or not. If you are wrong, there will be no negative consequences; if you are right, you can make fun of all the non-believers for eternity....
Ah, so this all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful god goes by what people say rather than what's going on in their brains? Interesting.
Well, perhaps it's a cunning plan to tempt him to these shores, so that he can be arrested and thrown in the Tower.
However, they are just handing out Knighthoods these days. Didn't Mick Jagger just get one? And what for? Inflicting Brown Sugar upon us. I challenge you to go into a British pub with a jukebox, and sit for more than an hour, without being subjected. If you're doubly unlucky, there will be a live band on. They will also play Brown Sugar. To add insult to injury you might also be sujected to Mustang Sally and various aural manure by Van Morrison.
They get that performance increase on legacy code that doesn't even know about the extra registers by putting the memeory controller on-chip, instead of on the northbridge of the motherboard. This is something that RISC CPUs have been doing for a decade or so. Rumour has it that the Opteron is architecturally very similar to the Alpha.
I mean come on. We can't even get one watt of positive energy flow out of Fusion
Er, um, we can and have, actually, we just haven't made a way of generating electricity from it yet. Mind you, fission is here and down, and unfortunately going away because of "environmentalists", short-term capitalism and yellow-bellied politicians.
I'm not sure that getting helium-3 from the Moon is a good idea economically though. Seems like an awful lot of trouble to go to.
I mean come on. We can't even get one watt of positive energy flow out of Fusion
Er, um, we can and have, actually, we just haven't made a way of generating electricity from it yet. Mind you, fission is here and down, and unfortunately going away because of "environmentalists", shotr-term capitalism and yellow-bellied politicians.
Er, um, but, well, if someone already has deployed many units first, and some shambling comittee tries to come up with a "standard" which won't be here until manyana, whose system is going to become the de facto standard?
I like Slackware too, but when I'm CEO of my own multi-million $ international corporation, I'll be looking for something cheaper to install on all my desktops and better integrated (for my non-IT geek staff to use) rather than the hackers' favourite distro(TM) + random bleeding edge untested and not particularly well integrated desktop environment. That's what I like to do in my spare time at home.
(obviously it's useful to break the 4GB barrier, but does it also improve speed?)
Yes, it does improve speed because in breaking the 4GB barrier, you now can process huge data sets without segmenting.
However, in 64-bit mode, there are also twice as many registers which makes for a heck of a speed improvement. Obviously legacy 32-bit code can't use the extra registers because is isn't written to use them, but a 64-bit opearating system kernel can, which improves speed there in many instances. There is an extra penalty on context switches, but this is far outweighed by the benefits.
As for benchmarks, there have been many unofficial performance comparisons. Google is your friend. As a general rule-of-thumb, the 64-bit Opteron is about 10-30% faster on legacy code than the Athlon XP. That's on a 32-bit kernel (that doesn't know about the extra registers).
Unofficially, I could tell you some performance numbers, but I fear the Men in Black.
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The number of Java developers continues to grow. It is phenomenally successful. .NET on the other hand, is merely the next Windows API, paying lip-service to openness and portability. I don't doubt that .NET development is growing, however it is not replacing Java. Far from it. .NET does not even begin to address the problems that Java solves.
.NET is no threat at all to Java. No one takes .NET seriously. Java has its niche.
Please, let it rest in peace.
The risk from the close-to-home mission comes from using the Space Shuttle. Those risks disappear when going to Mars, to be replaced by entirely new ones.
Don't get too excited about the itanium benchmarks. There is an interesting discusstion here about them. It's worth noting that CPU performance can often be vastly improved simply by increasing the amount of on-chip cache. This is what's largely resposible for some of the itanium's high scores, and not the supposedly brilliant VLIW instruction set architecture.
Perhaps that's because Netware was written in Watcom C? Netware was very impressive in its day (late eighties, early nineties) having many features that we take for granted in Linux today. Watcom's C compiler used to be the best on the market for PeeCees, and could produce flat, 32-bit code for DOS extenders back when Microsoft C was still messing about in 16 bits. If you wanted to write an NLM for Netware, you used Watcom. It also targetted OS/2. Those were the days.
Ah, so this all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful god goes by what people say rather than what's going on in their brains? Interesting.
Here comes the twist:
I don't exist.
However, they are just handing out Knighthoods these days. Didn't Mick Jagger just get one? And what for? Inflicting Brown Sugar upon us. I challenge you to go into a British pub with a jukebox, and sit for more than an hour, without being subjected. If you're doubly unlucky, there will be a live band on. They will also play Brown Sugar. To add insult to injury you might also be sujected to Mustang Sally and various aural manure by Van Morrison.
You have my deepest and most heart-felt condolences.
They get that performance increase on legacy code that doesn't even know about the extra registers by putting the memeory controller on-chip, instead of on the northbridge of the motherboard. This is something that RISC CPUs have been doing for a decade or so. Rumour has it that the Opteron is architecturally very similar to the Alpha.
James T. Nail (Crocodile Shoooooees) of Newcastle Upon Tyne says, "Mod this up aboot a thoosand insightful."
Then you truly are a lunatic.
You are a liar, and a lunatic, but the kind of lunatic I like.
Er, um, we can and have, actually, we just haven't made a way of generating electricity from it yet. Mind you, fission is here and down, and unfortunately going away because of "environmentalists", short-term capitalism and yellow-bellied politicians.
I'm not sure that getting helium-3 from the Moon is a good idea economically though. Seems like an awful lot of trouble to go to.
Er, um, we can and have, actually, we just haven't made a way of generating electricity from it yet. Mind you, fission is here and down, and unfortunately going away because of "environmentalists", shotr-term capitalism and yellow-bellied politicians.
So what do you think of GNUstep?
Horse bolts, stable door closes or something.
I like Slackware too, but when I'm CEO of my own multi-million $ international corporation, I'll be looking for something cheaper to install on all my desktops and better integrated (for my non-IT geek staff to use) rather than the hackers' favourite distro(TM) + random bleeding edge untested and not particularly well integrated desktop environment. That's what I like to do in my spare time at home.
This JDS from Sun has quite a head start. How can they compete?
Yes, it does improve speed because in breaking the 4GB barrier, you now can process huge data sets without segmenting.
However, in 64-bit mode, there are also twice as many registers which makes for a heck of a speed improvement. Obviously legacy 32-bit code can't use the extra registers because is isn't written to use them, but a 64-bit opearating system kernel can, which improves speed there in many instances. There is an extra penalty on context switches, but this is far outweighed by the benefits.
As for benchmarks, there have been many unofficial performance comparisons. Google is your friend. As a general rule-of-thumb, the 64-bit Opteron is about 10-30% faster on legacy code than the Athlon XP. That's on a 32-bit kernel (that doesn't know about the extra registers).
Unofficially, I could tell you some performance numbers, but I fear the Men in Black.
....and I can't spell monkeys.
Yes, but when are they going to put monkies in orbit? Because after that, people will not be too far behind. I like monkies.
LOL
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