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> thought floating point is an essential part of databases To add to the other replies to this, the number of areas where CPU floating point performance matter
by speed_spread 3y ago
> thought floating point is an essential part of databases
To add to the other replies to this, the number of areas where CPU floating point performance matters is shrinking. GPUs are where it's at nowadays. Also, T1 was never going to be a gaming machine or a supercomputer node. Whoever thought otherwise didn't read the actual specs, which were very clear back then.