radical suggestion for fc4 release
Eric S. Raymond
esr at thyrsus.com
Tue Feb 1 20:15:58 UTC 2005
Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>:
> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 21:44 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>
> > Is that a problem? Processors are speeding up faster than media are
> > getting larger -- thus, trdsing clocks for space seems like the
> > right thing.
>
> Processors are not speeding up at all, to a first approximation.
> Haven't you noticed? Moore's law stopped operating about two years ago.
Pedantry...
Yes, speed increases in single processors have stalled. Which is why
there are a lot more SMP and multicore systems deployed now. Clocks
per dollar seems to be continuing to rise on a roughly 2^n curve, even
though clocks per processor aren't.
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