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Perhaps Moore's law is a consequence of people's ability to design algorithms. Hardware design needs similar resources of the mind. Circuit routing, simulations
by iwwr 16y ago
Perhaps Moore's law is a consequence of people's ability to design algorithms. Hardware design needs similar resources of the mind. Circuit routing, simulations, benchmarking, design re-use, HDL code bases ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_description_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_description_language )...
- sharednothing 16y agoDigging deeper, you will hit the characteristic comparative pattern of platonic and the physical. Chips are build using matter and the limiting factors are ultimately physical. Algorithms are embodied on physical machines, but the bottlenecks are primarily conceptual. In that sense, the takeaway from this for me is a verification of the intuition that conceptual models offer greater degrees of freedom. (duh.)