3 ms·
> Computer power goes up exponentially thanks to Moore's law If you look at a graph, that stopped being true well over a decade ago.
by nitwit005 4y ago
> Computer power goes up exponentially thanks to Moore's law
If you look at a graph, that stopped being true well over a decade ago.
- jiggawatts 4y agoOnly for single-threaded programs. Multi-threaded performance continued along the curve unabated.
- nitwit005 4y agoMoore's law is specifically about the number (density) of transistors in an integrated circuit. You could always get as much parallelism as you wanted by adding more chips.