[tech] Patience/Magicarp

[Ian McKellar]

I love benchmarks!

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Simon Fryer <fryers at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>wrote:

> > A while ago Bob Adamson tapped:
>
> [...]
>
> > PS: anyone know a good, high, out of sight window we can use to make
> > Patience go faster than it ever has?
>
> The physics department roof has always been attractive for dropping things
> off.
>
> Maybe we could recreate classical experiment by dropping two computers of
> different architectures off the top of a building and seeing which one hits
> the ground first! This will of course answers the question as to which
> architecture is faster!
>
> Simon
>
> --
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> "Well, an engineer is not concerned with the truth; that is left to
> philosophers and theologians: the prime concern of an engineer is
> the utility of the final product."
> Lectures on the Electrical Properties of Materials, L.Solymar, D.Walsh
>
>


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