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The repeal of Moore's law will be a blessing in disguise, I think. Not only will programmers need to get clever in a traditional sense but, also, a new era of s
by arketyp 7y ago
The repeal of Moore's law will be a blessing in disguise, I think. Not only will programmers need to get clever in a traditional sense but, also, a new era of specialized hardware will require a more intimate understanding of the bits and pieces. I'm optimistic.
- philwelch 7y agoI’m actually looking forward to the end of Moore’s Law. Instead of keeping up with a rapidly shifting landscape of new and creative ways of wasting CPU cycles, we can maybe build things that have a chance of lasting a hundred years.
- pixl97 7y agoEven after Moore's we are going to have a shifting landscape of security changes in processors that has been neglected for some time.
- RachelF 7y agoCompared to the 1990's Moore's law stopped really making CPUs faster around 10 years ago. We now have more cores, but getting performance gains from parallelism can be hard. I think the real reason software may be more buggy is that good quality software takes too long to develop. There is a big commercial advantage in being first to market. Constant updates over the web also mean that you don't need to test so much before shipping. You can always send a patch later. This was different when software was shipped on disks.