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To be extra pedantic, Moore's law says nothing about clock speed.
by Retr0spectrum 10y ago
To be extra pedantic, Moore's law says nothing about clock speed.
- reitzensteinm 10y agoTo be extra, extra pedantic, clock speed is not the only factor. You must also take in to account the number of NOPs executed per cycle (NPC). Indeed, chip architects would struggle to find a way to execute vast quantities of NOPs efficiently until the release of the Itanium in 2001.
- __jal 10y agoDon't forget the infamous NOP bug that made all the headlines in the late 90s, when certain values of NOP would actually do something.