From: juhana@ebri01.ebara.co.jp (Juhana Rasanen)
Newsgroups: comp.arch.storage,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.benchmarks,comp.nfs.sex,gnu.emacs.sex
Subject: Re: Appliance benchmark?

In article <3ptibv$kb7@larry.rice.edu> vivek@cs.rice.edu (Vivek
Sadananda Pai) writes:
>In article <3ps8h3$88l@lsi.lsil.com>, gjb@lsil.com (gary bridgewater) writes:
>|> In article <3pqu2u$o5s@supernova.netapp.com> hitz@netapp.com (Dave
Hitz) writes:
>|> >My toaster can toast 2 slices of bread in 42 seconds.  My neighbor has
>|> >one that can toast 4 slices of bread at once but it takes 67 seconds.
>|> >
>|> >Response time or throughput?  The eternal dilemma.
>|> 
>|> Buy a second 2-slice toaster.
>|> 
>|> Time versus money?  The eternal conundrum.
>
>Squish your 4 slices so they take the space of 2, then
>toast them in your fast 2-slice toaster.
>Compression's been around for a long time.
>
>Size vs speed? The eternal doughnut.

Toast the first two slices, and while eating them, toast the second
two ones. Pipelining is the happening thing.