Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 07:04:26 -0800 (PST) From: opentrax@email.com To: barry@lustig.com Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "iowait" CPU state Message-ID: <200011231504.HAA02182@spammie.svbug.com> In-Reply-To: <20001115204128.12980.qmail@devious.lustig.com>
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On 15 Nov, Barry Lustig wrote: > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: >> >> I'm always tempted to set up a company where the main >> engineers have a centralized batch compile server, so as to >> not slow down developement, but requiring that they run no >> better than a 386SX/16 on their desktop. If they are good, >> I'd give them a full 8M of real RAM, instead of 4M. >> > > That's what they did at NeXT. The engineers got machines with slower > processors and small amounts of RAM. It was designed to encourage them to > produce fast efficient code. > Thats what we do also. We hired some engineers and it seemed they spent more time on "build world", than solving the problem. When one of them went on vacation (for a few days), we told him we needed to sell his computer. We replace a 350MHz PII with a 386dx @ 33Mhz. It took him about 3 days, but he started thinking about the problem, not building new code. It's become very effective in retraining engineers. Jessem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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