Lawyers often get a lot of criticism and ridicule when they argue back and forth about the meanings of words, even something as apparently obvious as the word “Is” especially in the context of a legal document or proceeding.
According to Chris Fournier, who is teaching a class titled “Analyzing Embedded Multicore Processor and System Capabilities (ESC-207), ” at the Fall 2008 Embedded Systems Conference in Boston, when it comes to such things as the definition of “fast,” it is also important for embedded systems developers to pay attention to context when assessing performance and benchmarking multi-core systems.
Fournier, a senior product marketing manager in AMD’s embedded computing solutions division, said that switching to multi-core technology presents as many challenges as it does benefits.
“One of those challenges is simply analyzing the potential performance benefit of a multicore processor, system, or system-on-a-chip (SoC),” he said. ” How much faster will a multicore approach be? Guessing and rules of thumb don’t work here.
