From: Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks>
Subject: Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux?
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On Sat, 5 Apr 2025 15:22:23 -0400, c186282 wrote:

> 
>    Digital ... note that clock speeds haven't really risen in
>    a LONG time. They can, to a point, make them 'work smarter'
>    but how much more ? Not all tasks/problems lend themselves
>    to parallel processing methods either.
> 
>    So, yea, we're pretty much there.
> 

The supercomputer people would disagree.

Supercomputers, based on Linux, just keep on getting faster.

The metric is matrix multiplication, a classic problem in cache
management.

I don't know about the architecture of supercomputers but
the limit seems to be still quite open.



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