Talk:Pipeline
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Mechanical analogy
This analogy seems to be rather contrived and superfluous:
- A mechanical example of a pipeline is a washer/dryer system for clothing. Instead of having one unit that both washes and dries, we have two units that together form a pipeline (the output of the washer enters the drier). If washing takes 1 hour and drying takes 1 hour, the pipeline allows us to finish a full load of laundry every hour, compared to every 2 hours if you had a single (non-pipelined) unit that washed and then dried. It still requires two hours for an item of clothing to complete its wash/dry cycle of course.
Can this be replaced by a better example of a real mechanical pipeline?
Anyway, perhaps it should fit better in an article "Mechanical pipeline"?
Jorge Stolfi 02:18, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Explain example
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- Could the steps be explained briefly? Is it not better to combine the 2nd and 3rd line? - Patrick 10:36 Mar 1, 2003 (UTC)
- Thanks. Patrick 23:37 May 13, 2003 (UTC)