Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

[Mike Castle]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 04:56:16PM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
> But so what? That's $16 worth of DRAM (I just checked). Not so bad 
> *if* threads are otherwise a great solution. I grant that one might 
> have a pretty tough time making the case, but again, for the right 
> application, say some app with a dedicated server, 73MB isn't the end 
> of the world (though I suppose it was at the time...).


How much would 73MB of cache cost?  How much would it cost to get that much
on the CPU?

mrc
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