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Moore's Law doesn't just bring processor speed, but also vast quantities of RAM. How much of the improvement credited to algorithms came from newly-affordable
by pohl 16y ago
Moore's Law doesn't just bring processor speed, but also vast quantities of RAM. How much of the improvement credited to algorithms came from newly-affordable time/space tradeoffs brought by Moore's Law? I like the question this post is raising, but would like to see it approached in a more careful manner.
- redwood 16y agogood point: moore's law has quadratic effects on the ability to use computers. We could take this a step further and say there's an email law which is thousands of times further from the increase in algorithms or clock speeds: more emails sent than in 1990 by a staggering amount :P
- lsb 16y agoAlso with more RAM, more and more datasets are fitting in memory. You can have all of Wikipedia in memory on a machine that costs as much as a Venti Latte per day.