* Posts by Bill 25

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Facebook knuckle-raps Intel, AMD

Bill 25
Pint

ree Buy SUN

I was thinking the same thing. The problem, however, as TPM has guessed is that the back-end software probably does not scale well across the available cores/threads. Most opensource software does not... If you threw all of the slow/plentiful cores/threads on the T1000 at the problem, and TPM was right, then you would not do any better.

A Pint for TPM, as this is one article that he seems to have thought through. Perhaps he's right, maybe he's not, but blaming the HW vendors for performance issues before you've completely threshed out the problem is bad style.