Re: Some questions

[Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>]

On 2016/04/27 15:50:22 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 07:15:05AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
>> On 2016/04/27 09:53:57 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:21:48AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>> However, the newly added Table 14.2 "A Variable With More Simultaneous Values"
>>>> seems like it is not complete yet.  Is that the case?
>>>
>>> Please see attached for what it looks like to me.
>>
>> Well, this is identical to the one I built.
>> So, do you intend to explicitly put numbers which show up fairly long time, and
>> leave other cells blank even below changes of values denoted by (n) in italics?
> 
> The blank cells represent cache misses.  The CPU is waiting for a read
> to complete during that time.  A non-blank cell corresponds to a CPU
> actually completing a read.

Oh, I see. But this should be explained in the text, I think.
> 
>>>> Looks like you used some custom script or something to generate the table
>>>> from a raw data that contains when each cpu sees the updates.
>>>>
>>>> Do you have a plan to replace the Table with a Figure something like
>>>> Figure 14.5 "A Variable With Multiple Simultaneous Values"?
>>>
>>> I briefly considered coloring the table cells, but got distracted.
>>
>> That kind of work would be made easy if you make a script or something to
>> generate the latex source of the table. The problem is the script itself
>> might take time to make it work properly. I could be of help in that area. 
> 
> I probably do have something somewhere...  No guarantees of finding it...
> 
>>> I am not sure that making a 14.5-like barchart would be all that
>>> readable...  But please feel free to prove me wrong.
>>
>> There would be a number of very narrow bars hard to recognize.
>> It would also be impossible to see there are fourteen different opinions
>> at time 20. Yes, a table seems a better way to represent this.
> 
> Not sure that there is a really good way to represent this, but again,
> please feel free to prove me wrong!  A nicer representation would be a
> very good thing.
> 
> 							Thanx, Paul
> 
>>>> If you do, I'll refrain from touching the Table. Rather, I'd be interested
>>>> in improving the script you might be using, if any.
>>>>
>>>> Another totally unrelated question is about the URL you placed in
>>>> Section C.7: "http://www.openvms.compaq.com/wizard/wiz_2637.html".
>>>> Sadly, this URL is no longer valid. Do you happen to aware of an alternative
>>>> URL still accessible today?
>>>
>>> This one: http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/wiz_2637.html
>>>
>>>> By looking up a Wikipedia article, I found a page at
>>>> http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/technology/chip-docs.html,
>>>> which is "Archived technical documentation library" of Alpha
>>>> containing links to technical documentation for Alpha microprocessors
>>>> and Alpha ATX motherboards. Is there a document there which can be
>>>> referred to instead of the above mentioned URL?
>>>
>>> Ah, I see...  I blew it and included the URL verbatim in the text.
>>> It should be replaced with \cite{Compaq01}.
>>>
>>> Fixed, with your Reported-by!  Thank you!
>>
>> Oh, you are most welcome!
>>                                                    Thanks, Akira
>>>
>>> 							Thanx, Paul
>>>
>>

You might need to modify the repeated reference to the URL just before
footnote 6 in Section C.7.1

                                               Thanks, Akira