[SciPy-User] Ubuntu vs Fedora for scientific work?

[Chris Colbert]

what macbook supports 16GB of memory?


On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:29 AM, David
Cournapeau<david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> Dharhas Pothina wrote:
>>>>> alexander baker <baker.alexander at gmail.com> 8/4/2009 3:21 AM >>>
>>>>>
>>> Some very interesting points from David, especially the virtual machine
>>> point.
>>>
>>
>> So is there much of a performance hit using a virtual machine, or is it pretty much unnoticable on a modern machine?
>>
>
> Well, numpy is faster on a Linux VM  in vmware fusion than on mac os x
> on my macbook, because of more recent compiler and recent ATLAS I guess.
> So unless you are IO heavy, the main drawback is memory - I bought a new
> macbook for the explicit purpose of more available memory. Even  8-16 Gb
> start to become affordable for a conventional workstation,
>
> cheers,
>
> David
>
>
>> - dharhas
>>
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