Let me quote Einstein: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but NOT simpler!" And that's IMHO exactly where the original author erred. But i find

Let me quote Einstein: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but NOT simpler!" And that's IMHO exactly where the original author erred. But i find his musings so incredibly funny and enlightening, that i will use them as a future reference of how NOT to do an analysis. He didn't just do an apple vs oranges comparison, but he essentially threw eggs, potatoes and ham in the mix and tried to deduce an universal law from his concoction by sprinkling some quantum mechanics fairy dust into the mix! Hilarious! Just by simply looking at his sloppy graph (Typical origin-shenanigans are often a dead give away for the quality of an examination.) one should be able to recognize the form of an underlying step function, as expected from a multi-layered memory system (L1,L2,L3,RAM, ...) . But NO, he envisions a Square-Root function, just by arbitrarly placing a line in a logarithmic coordinate system. WTF?! Where is the fitting? And how does he defend his conclusion? drum-roll QUANTUM MECHANICS .... Muhahahaha! Great show! So essentially it's not cost that prohibits our brave engineers of increasing L1 cache size ad infinitum, but because of quantum mechanics! Muhahahaha! Stop it, my stomach hurts.....