On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 15:15 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: [snip] > > Processors are not speeding up at all, to a first approximation. > > Haven't you noticed? Moore's law stopped operating about two years ago. > > Pedantry... > > Yes, speed increases in single processors have stalled. Which is why > there are a lot more SMP and multicore systems deployed now. Clocks > per dollar seems to be continuing to rise on a roughly 2^n curve, even > though clocks per processor aren't. But... Unless rpm and yum are multi-threaded, this makes little difference. Are they? Seth? Jeff? -- -Paul Iadonisi Senior System Administrator Red Hat Certified Engineer / Local Linux Lobbyist Ever see a penguin fly? -- Try Linux. GPL all the way: Sell services, don't lease secrets
