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by jessaustin 4217 days ago
Could you describe the sorts of calculations those were? Are these regressions or similar? Do PMs really look at that sort of thing? Maybe they were basing a TSP on the latest financial figures? b^)

It seems possible that was a mostly IO-bound system, and the things which could have been conceivably CPU-bound should just have been batched and cached.