On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:38 -0200, nemesis wrote:

> Darren New wrote:
>> Google had a lot of these kinds of questions. Stuff like "how can you
>> determine how big a machine's cache is?"
>> 
>> I couldn't figure out if they wanted a program to measure the timing of
>> something assuming different cache sizes and look for the step in the
>> timing, or "look it up in the x86 instruction set manual".
> 
> I would just write:  "I'd google for it".  a bit of butt-kissing can't
> hurt... :D

That wouldn't work so well if you were interviewing at Yahoo. ;-)

Jim

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