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Not sure if it's exactly accurate with the plateauing trend -- single-threaded performance almost doubled in the last 5 years.

• pclmulqdq 4y ago
  It's a log scale graph, it shows a doubling. The performance just isn't increasing as fast as it was before.
  • hansel_der 4y ago
    yea, buying a pc in the early intel era was a somewhat double edgded sword because you knew that the next generation would come out in a year or so and it would probably have more than double the performance.
    • Nomentatus 4y ago
      For many years my friends and I had a rule that we wouldn't buy a new computer until it offered at least 4X the speed of our old one. We didn't have to wait all that long.