[hinkley]

The top comment opens up the concept of latency versus throughput. My interpretation is that this experiment is demonstrating that optimizing only for latency has consequences elsewhere in the system. Which is not surprising at all, but then again I spend a lot of time explaining unsurprising things.

I remember a sort of sea change in my thinking on technical books during a period where I tended to keep them at work instead of at home. I noticed a curious pattern in which ones were getting borrowed and by whom. Reading material isn't only useful if it has something new to me in it. It's also useful if it presents information I already know and agree with, in a convenient format. Possibly more useful, in fact.