John Leslie wrote, On 2/18/09 5:59 PM:
John Levine <johnl(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com> wrote:
[...]
None of this is new, this was all worked out a decade ago. But it's
all still way too slow to keep up with an interesting amount of e-mail.
Have you perhaps not noticed Moore's Law at work these last ten years?
CPU power is not likely to be the critical bottleneck for a system that has
to do large numbers of transactions across the Internet. Network latency is
particularly resistant to Moore's law or anything like it.
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