in reply to CPU cycles DO NOT MATTER!
So, all the money Google spent on eshewing RDBMSs and everything else that goes to making up the Google architecture was a waste of time because they could have just doubled their performance by spending another $250 million on another 80,000 servers?
Hm. I wonder what that would have done to their electricity bill?
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