[Bloat] Random idea in reaction to all the discussion of TCP flavours - timestamps?

[Rick Jones]

> > Do the CPUs in handhelds possess that much more "oomph"
> > than "regular" systems did when 100BT or 1GbE first appeared?
> 
> Typical handhelds now have anything from a 600MHz ARM11 (iPhone 3G) up
>  to dual-core 1GHz+ Cortex-A9s (iPad2, Galaxy Tab).  The latter are
>  roughly equivalent to decent netbook/nettop hardware.  There is
>  typically 512MB RAM in total.

Pity that isn't enough memory to run SPECcpu2006 to take us out of the
mythical megahurts space :)  But it might be enough to run
SPECcpu2000...

rick jones