Talk:Von Neumann syndrome

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[edit] rename "von Neumann syndrome" to "von Neumann bottleneck"

I suggest renaming this article "von Neumann syndrome" to "von Neumann bottleneck". Both ideas are very closely related, so I think one article can talk about both. I think the "von Neumann bottleneck" term is the historically first, still more popular name, and (in my opinion) more descriptive. --68.0.124.33 (talk) 17:52, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Or would it be better to merge this article into the von Neumann architecture article, the way that "von Neumann bottleneck" is currently a redirect to the architecture article? --68.0.124.33 (talk) 18:25, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

From what I've understood after reading the article, the Von Neumann bottleneck is treated as just a single factor of the (wider) Von Neumann syndrome. The term "Von Neumann bottleneck" was coined by John Backus in 1977, and is a technical issue. "Von Neumann syndrome" was coined by C. V. Ramamoorthy, and sounds like a theoretical issue (reminds me of Amdahl's law). Given this understanding, I don't think that a merge or a rename is warranted. What is disconcerting, however, is that there appears to be no reference to any primary source attributing the term to Ramamoorthy – if it is given in one of the "References", an inline citation would be appropriate. Ayla (talk) 20:30, 11 February 2008 (UTC)