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Old 10-31-2008, 01:53 AM   #65
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less powerful cpu != less complex tasks

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Originally Posted by bob_ninja View Post
Even comparing DR and Cybook is not fair. Cybook crashes for any non-trivial PDF. So it has a smaller CPU using less power, *BUT* cannot handle compex context and is much slower rendering content than DR.
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Sorry, I'm going a bit ....
When a CPU is more or less powerful, it just means it can do tasks faster or slower. Once a CPU reaches a certain level of complexity in computation, it can do any computation - that is what is called a Universal Turing Machine . Once it reaches that it is only a matter of time and memory. All CPUs we encounter have that complexity. The cybook crashing on complex pdfs just means buggy software, or maybe buggy hardware .

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