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The myth that it doesn’t matter what your processor architecture is—that Moore’s law will take care of you—is totally false.
by mmphosis 16y ago
The myth that it doesn’t matter what your processor architecture is—that Moore’s law will take care of you—is totally false.
- johkra 16y agoI had a look at the architecture of the B5000 system they're talking of (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems). It's really completely different from today's architectures and I have the feeling we're emulating a lot of the functionality in software today. This gives some credibility to Kay's claim that "a benchmark from 1979 at Xerox PARC runs only 50 times faster today". (This number really baffled me.)