>I dunno. I could easily design a cpu intensive workload (branch on
count, anyone?) that could achieve and maintain a very high velocity for
very long periods of time
...
Artificial workloads don't count! (8-{]}
But, if I ever worked in a shop with a lot of engineering type work I might
have said otherwise.
What part of 'empirical' do you not understand.
Besides, I eventually have to do IO.
But, this is an aside.
My point was/is: not the value; the acheivement is what counts.
-teD
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All others bring data!
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