Comments on: MIXing it up with Donald Knuth http://softwareblogs.intel.com/2008/04/28/mixing-it-up-with-donald-knuth/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:38:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: janemei http://softwareblogs.intel.com/2008/04/28/mixing-it-up-with-donald-knuth/#comment-13829 janemei Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:42:34 +0000 http://softwareblogs.intel.com/2008/04/28/mixing-it-up-with-donald-knuth/#comment-13829 good good

]]> By: janemei http://softwareblogs.intel.com/2008/04/28/mixing-it-up-with-donald-knuth/#comment-13828 janemei Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:42:07 +0000 http://softwareblogs.intel.com/2008/04/28/mixing-it-up-with-donald-knuth/#comment-13828 okey! okey!

]]> By: Euphonious Whale http://softwareblogs.intel.com/2008/04/28/mixing-it-up-with-donald-knuth/#comment-12448 Euphonious Whale Fri, 09 May 2008 21:13:21 +0000 http://softwareblogs.intel.com/2008/04/28/mixing-it-up-with-donald-knuth/#comment-12448 Even after finding a "full" set of the first three volumes of TAOCP (for a total of $24 so many cowznofskis ago!), I privately referred to the author as "Knuth Landwaster," which was a reference to the first Thomas Covenant trilogy by Stephen R. Donaldson. After reading the Knuth interview and his multi-core comments, I thought he was a bit off base with the Itanium comparison. I think he really woud have wanted to make the comparison to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_coke" rel="nofollow">New Coke</a>, a radical product change of massive proportions that met with customer disapproval and eventually was hounded from the market in favor of the original formula. I don't think Intel or AMD or IBM are going to go back to ramping clock speed on single core processors, though, no matter what hue and cry. Even after finding a "full" set of the first three volumes of TAOCP (for a total of $24 so many cowznofskis ago!), I privately referred to the author as "Knuth Landwaster," which was a reference to the first Thomas Covenant trilogy by Stephen R. Donaldson.

After reading the Knuth interview and his multi-core comments, I thought he was a bit off base with the Itanium comparison. I think he really woud have wanted to make the comparison to New Coke, a radical product change of massive proportions that met with customer disapproval and eventually was hounded from the market in favor of the original formula. I don't think Intel or AMD or IBM are going to go back to ramping clock speed on single core processors, though, no matter what hue and cry.

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