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The P3 era was really a golden age. Clock speeds were still rapidly doubling, you could get SMP but most people didn't so everything had to optimize single-thre
by morelisp 3y ago
The P3 era was really a golden age. Clock speeds were still rapidly doubling, you could get SMP but most people didn't so everything had to optimize single-threaded perf, and likewise "normal" memory spanned 32MB to 512MB so you could really keep multiple programs' full working sets ready at once.
- water9 3y agoI would've said P4 era with hyperthreading opening the door to multi-core programming paradigms. Clock speeds mostly capped around 5ghz since that era
- jorvi 3y agoI’d rather call that the Athlon era. P4’s ran like (literal) hot garbage, Athlon’s absolutely crushed them.
- Affric 3y agoAthlon was amazing.
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoIf we're going back to that time period... Alpha. How I coveted my roommate's machine that had one in it.