On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> On 07/12/2007, Jan Lentfer wrote:
>
>> On the other hand, why you want to optimzie the hell out of a 4-way 8-Gig
>> Operton server or the like, for normal services you want feel too much
>> difference here, because it is fast as hell anyway.
>
> Because sometimes "optimising the hell out of a large server" is the
> difference between needing to buy 1 or 1.5 of said server.

And this becomes even more of an argument when you're talking about 1000 or
1500 servers vs 2000 servers. :-)

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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