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...king for switching platforms > - etc. etc. etc. as time permits > - gotchas, readmes, caveats about the system > - resource list > >Time: > 7pm > >Date: > Wednesday Aug 20th, 2003 > >Location: > Jax [Restaurant] > 110 SW Yamhill St. > Portland, OR > > On the MAX Line, next to Bally's Fitness. This is around the > corner from Paddy's about > > >There will be food, alcohol, and much technical discussion. > >Projector: > > I do need a p...

Following up on some posts here a few weeks ago about a gathering of Asterisk geeks at the upcoming OSCON in Portland. There are a bunch of tentative-sounding "We ought to meet heres" and the like. Is it appropriate to try to set things up a bit more specifically at this point? Thx. B.

...to the OS, leveraging its context switching (and associated overhead) to manage some details. That's why HyperThreading can actually be slower for some applications, because they do not thread, and the added overhead in _software_ results in reduced processing time for the applications. "Yamhill" IA-32e aka "EM64T" was just a P4 ALU refit for x86-64/PAE52, but it lacks many design considerations that the Athlon has -- especially outside the programmer/software considerations, and definitely more at the core interconnect/platform.. I.e., because Intel continues to use a si...