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I'm curious to see what the total timings would be like to get the data in a useable form - as opposed to just fetching a record from a data store. As noted - these data stores jus…

I think if you look closely at the specs, I think the Xeon has about 2.5MB of L3 per core, while P8 has about 8MB of L3/core. There are bigger differences than this. But the exampl…

the last I heard, Linux on the IBM Mainframes were driving > 50% of their sales.

It depends on what you mean by "demanding". I think that single threaded applications on x86 (with nothing else running) will smoke the Power8 system. But if you have lots of threa…

it's surprising how much cheaper these Power8 boxes are compared to the Power7 boxes. You can get a tyan 2U, 1 socket system for $2800 FOB HK: http://www.tyan.com/campaign/openpowe…

Power has been little endian for a while. No one bothered to tell the software guys to write a little endian OS and tools for it....

Interesting simple cup test. I can't wait to see other, more comprehensive applications.

heh. Google can't release a Maps app - mostly because that would be duplicating a service that Apple already provides, and apple hates competition !

Heh. That's funny. when i go to those sites, i don't even see the ads. That's why I block facebook connect, google plus, and a raft of other sites.

Bah. There are so many apps that I purchased that are complete junk, that, IMO, paying a $0.99 for an app that I do use seems to even itself out. And what about completely fraudule…

This is funny. I thought that the whole paradigm of startups is to first release the minimally useful featureset and work on the other items later? I mean - isn't the goal is to fi…