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Date:      Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:32:52 +0100
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        rwatson@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: a serious error in sched_ule.c?
Message-ID:  <xzpwu5mwonv.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20040314211654.05d0bb9f.wes@softweyr.com> (Wes Peters's message of "Sun, 14 Mar 2004 21:16:54 -0800")
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Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> writes:
> Sigh.  Nobody really does compute-bound tasks anymore, do they?  I really
> miss "scientific programming."

Actually, my wife is a molecular biologist and eats CPU hours with
milk and sugar for breakfast.  She expressed her satisfaction
yesterday at finding out that her latest program only takes four and a
half hours per data set.  "But honey," says I, "you have 30,000 data
sets!"  Quoth the love of my life, "That's OK, we've got *two*
computers."

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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