"Eric S. Raymond" :

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I think it's significant that MMX instructions and so forth entered the Intel line to support *games*, not Navier-Stokes calculations.

But when version 1.0 of FlashFlood! comes out, requiring high-quality real-time hydrodynamics simulation, Navier-Stokes calculations will suddenly become very important...

Shoot, I thought that was what Microsoft Hailstorm was all about. Path integrals about the atmospheric isobars, and all that... -- Uche Ogbuji Principal Consultant uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com +1 303 583 9900 x 101 Fourthought, Inc. http://Fourthought.com 4735 East Walnut St, Ste. C, Boulder, CO 80301-2537, USA XML strategy, XML tools (http://4Suite.org), knowledge management