On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 09:44:21PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Is that a problem? Processors are speeding up faster than media are > getting larger -- thus, trdsing clocks for space seems like the > right thing. Processors are close to stopped on growth. 1990 386DX40 150Mb 2005 AMD64@~3GHz 400Gb Its actually not clear that this is true, especially as bzip2 performance is heavily RAM not cache dependant and RAM hasnt scaled at all well (damned speed of light is just too low...) Alan
