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Something to think about, back in the 80s, when computers were millions of times slower than today, they were still considered so fast that it was worth sacrifi
by bane 6y ago
Something to think about, back in the 80s, when computers were millions of times slower than today, they were still considered so fast that it was worth sacrificing most of the performance by letting people work in an interpreted language BASIC -- and people were still able to be productive and do real work with them.
- userbinator 6y agoMillions, no. Thousands, yes. Keep in mind that those 80s interpreted languages still have less overhead than the HLLs of today.
- bane 6y agoNo, a typical desktop computer today is millions of times faster than a typical 1980s 8-bit computer. A Commodore 64 ran a 6510 at ~1Mhz (depending on NTSC or PAL). It was a single core CPU with no pipelining or superscaler features and took multiple cycles to complete a single operation putting it's performance in the hundreds of thousands of operations (of any kind) per second. The Playstation 4, a consumer-grade entertainment device provides around 8TFLOPs of performance. Just a CPU, like an AMD 3990x is rated at 2.3 million MIPS while the 6502 at 1Mhz is rated at less than .430 MIPS.