07-29-2015, 04:25 PM
(07-29-2015, 11:07 AM)chutten Wrote: I don't know how many members are tech-minded, but I am and we're talking about Waterloo, so I'm assuming it's fair to talk about
A problem I keep having with thinking about this construction and "Why are they doing X then Y instead of doing X+Z1 then Y+Z2 for parallelism?" is because, unlike in modern computers, the actors in this project aren't general-purpose.
Thanks, I appreciate the analogy. Scheduling constrained resources is indeed difficult. Sometimes they don't try, sometimes they do and then it's still hard.