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And I still reckon that it's closer to 5-6x than it is to 5or6 orders of magnitude.

• dragonwriter 4y ago
  > And I still reckon that it’s closer to 5-6x than it is to 5or6 orders of magnitude. The geometric midpoint (the only one that makes sense here) between the high end of 5-6x and the low end of 5-6 orders of magnitude is about 774×. The best info I can find (unsurprisingly, direct comparisons of performance of long-separated-in-time processors in aggregate is hard to find) is that between 1995-2011, integer performance increased somewhere well over 128 times but less than 256 times and floating point significantly more than 256x, and was trending in the last several years of the period to increase at a pace of 21% per year for both. [0] Seems likely to be close to or significantly past the 774× level between 1993-2023. [0] https://preshing.com/20120208/a-look-back-at-single-threaded-cpu-performance/ https://preshing.com/20120208/a-look-back-at-single-threaded...