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Sounds like anecdotal evidence that Moore's law has ended: If Moore's law was still in play then your 2011 computer would struggle to run 2017 software which is
by debbiedowner 9y ago
Sounds like anecdotal evidence that Moore's law has ended: If Moore's law was still in play then your 2011 computer would struggle to run 2017 software which is geared towards 2017 computers. But if Moore's law had ended then 2017 computers wouldn't be much faster than 2011 computers, so 2017 software would work fine on 2011 computers
- Brockenstein 9y agoMoore's law isn't based on a machine ability to run software though. One could argue Moore's law isn't relevant anymore but that's different from whether it's dead or not. Either because adoption of new hardware has slowed down, or because we hit a tipping point where CPU power available is much greater than most software's need to utilize it means that performance gains exist. Modern hardware is faster than 2011 or 2013 hardware but the pressure to upgrade because things run crummy on old hardware just isn't there like it used to be.