Re: [Sheflug] General Ramblings

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Alex Hudson wrote:

> AI doesn't need much processor power at all. Usually, it's not the
> processor that's a factor in game development anyway - the processor is
> *never* the bottleneck.

On a tangent somewhat but I would like to see rather more research into
game AI seen as there are a few spare cycles available in some games that
seem to think great graphics == great game.
The processor sometimes is the bottleneck, it depends on a very many
things including game design, texture usage, graphics card, engine
features etc. But that is way off topic. :)

> > If done properly it should make for a really nippy, responsive
> > system.
> 
> So should a UP 500MHz system, SMP doesn't gain you anything in terms of
> performance. It's just CPU RAID.....

I would have thought if you had a high load, say a kernel compile, an SMP
system should keep the user interface latency of other tasks down a bit.
Having never tried it I don't know though. :)

> I think in most distros it will be on, though. Too much stuff works in
> nasty ways without it. But, there will be a lot of changes in 2.4 which
> are going to require people re-learning bits of linux. When people find
> out they've knacked a floppy 'cos they unmounted it only once after
> mounting it twice, they'll perhaps realise there's a reason for different
> version numbers ;)

That is a dodgy change. I never could figure out the reasoning behind
that. unmount IMO should make sure the disk has a mount count of 0.


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