The pop-sci version of Moore's law, where old programs run magically faster on new hardware, has been dead for a while. Shrinking the size of a chip now has iss

The pop-sci version of Moore's law, where old programs run magically faster on new hardware, has been dead for a while. Shrinking the size of a chip now has issues with current leakage, so the energy savings from shrinking aren't as easy either. Moore's law is only an observation, so we'll see if these new devices extend Moore's law in hindsight. The way forward for faster programs does seem pretty clear though: more parallelism. That can be using vectorization, using more cores, or using coprocessors. How programming languages address parallelism is very important now, much more important than back when the pop-sci version was true.