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This is technically true, but it happens that clock speeds and MIPs have also increased at a geometric rate over long periods of time. It's a bit harder to char
by gamble 15y ago
This is technically true, but it happens that clock speeds and MIPs have also increased at a geometric rate over long periods of time. It's a bit harder to characterize because processor architecture changes have a discontinuous effect, but on average MIPs doubled every 36 months. [1]
[1] http://www.meaningprocessing.com/personalPages/tuomi/articles/TheLivesAndTheDeathOfMoore.pdf http://www.meaningprocessing.com/personalPages/tuomi/article...
- waitwhat 15y agoExcept that isn't Moore's Law.
- joe_the_user 15y agoNo it's not but it is what people have often taken as one of the main effects of Moore's law and it is the phenomena the implications of who's end the article is discussing. And those implications are important even if they aren't directly related to Moore's law.
- JoshTriplett 15y agoThe regular doubling of clock speed ended years ago, around the time of the Pentium 4. (The paper you cited appeared in 2002.) In any case, Moore's Law never said anything about clock speed; that just became a popular misinterpretation.