Re: opportunities

Nick Holland writes:
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> But, SMP is a buzzword...so people want it. In OpenBSD. Because.

The more I understand how software complexity grows exponentially fast as features are added and code size grows, the more I realize that the *lack* of SMP in OpenBSD is a strength and not a weakness. Simplicity is a virtue in software, and it is quite frustrating how complex software and software development has become in the "real world" (I wouldn't be suprised if the number of IT buzzwords has surpassed the McDonald's "billions served" counter by now...).

A dinky Sun Blade 100 with one ~500MHz/256KB CPU can handle over a half million web page requests a day without breaking a sweat (http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=50000347). Fewer and fewer applications require SMP every day, and those that do either do so needlessly (extremely common/bad software) or are genuine HPC-type applications (fairly rare/highly-optimized software).

Matt Received on Tue Jun 24 13:27:35 2003