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Here's the lesson: we hit the ceiling on our current technology a while ago. Developers continue to behave as though computing resources will continue growing

Here's the lesson: we hit the ceiling on our current technology a while ago. Developers continue to behave as though computing resources will continue growing as they used to, even though they've been stagnant for years.

PedroBatista 5y ago
That's not really true. I think your views are founded on the "moar Mhz moar performance" myth ( which is prevalent ), and Intel's decades old monopoly didn't help either, but if you compare 2 equivalent CPU's 10-15 years apart, there is no stagnation in performance. Maybe the old trick of cranking up the Mhz and call it a day doesn't work the way it used to, but in terms of performance results we are getting improvements.
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- jfrunyon 5y ago
  > Maybe the old trick of cranking up the Mhz and call it a day doesn't work the way it used to, but in terms of performance results we are getting improvements. Except... we aren't. Intel's CPUs haven't gotten significantly better in 4+ generations. AMD's have, but that's only because they were still catching up to Intel.