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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
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- Subject: Re: Superscalar vs. multiple CPUs ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.144226.11223@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 14:42:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.134531.3253@athena.mit.edu>, solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
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- | In how many of these examples are we actually concerned with processor
- | performance? In editors and word processors we certainly aren't.
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- Sorry, you obviously edit only small documents. Search, or search and
- replace, on a large document, can take a great deal of CPU. A global
- reformat can eat the cpu. Things as simple as making the printed text
- one column smaller can take many seconds in a WYSIWYG editor, since page
- breaks all need to be checked or changed, page numbers in the index and
- table of contents change, etc.
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- It will take a massive increase in CPU to bring operations like this
- down to reasonable (ie sub second) response time, so I don't think
- there's any lack of market in the word processing field.
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