Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is 'MAKEOPTS="--jobs --load-average=5"' silly?

[Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>]

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On 03/29/2013 01:46 PM, Dale wrote:
> »Q« wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:54:37 +0000
>> Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> On 29 March 2013, at 03:36, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> I can only imagine he was pointing out that you have a single CPU
>>>>>> with four cores in it.
>>>>> You're right, of course. I should have said /cores/.
>>>> Cores or CPUs.. in this context it's *almost*, __NOT EXACTLY__ same.
>>> Which is exactly what was so twitch inducing! 
>> Whatever you do, don't read the first sentence at
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-core_processor>.
>>
>>
>>
> 
> Especially this FIRST part:
> 
> "A *multi-core processor* is a single computing
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing> component . . ."
> 
> So, it is a SINGLE component.  To me, CPUs means having more than one
> CPU component, such as dual CPUs or even quad CPUs which used to be
> fairly common. 
> 
> I have a single CPU computer.  It has 4 cores but a single CPU.  I hope
> to upgrade one day to a 8 core CPU.  I'll still have a single CPU
> component installed tho. 
> 
> This is getting really funny.  ROFL  You can tell when the list is
> getting slow when we start parsing each word and each words meaning.  ;-) 

The list hasn't been slow all week. ^^


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