[Gllug] Programmer Wanted (scripter and compiler)

[John Hearns]

2009/5/4 Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk>:
>
> You haven't seen the proverbial off a shovel until you've seen a
> Nehalem, mind. Both my new machines are quad-core Nehalems (one a Core
> i7, one a Xeon L5520), and, well, they're searingly fast. My old 1.2GHz
> Athlon IV builds-and-tests glibc in three hours (if you arrange for it
> to not swap in the process, which is somewhat tricky). The Core i7
> builds and tests it in six minutes... all of a sudden I'm very
> interested in parallelizing everything.
>
> You couldn't get 8Gb of RAM for one though: they do everything in
> threes, like the Ramans. 12Gb is practical (as is 24Gb ;) ).

Is that the Ramans as in Noodles or the Italians :-)

Have a 12Gbyte Nehalem system on evaluation - i tis nice.
Yes, 24Gbyte would be even nicer.
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