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or it has escaped people -- how CPU's have gotten blazing fast. we can't notice of coure due to how software is these days. your average desktop CPU might have
by dzonga 2y ago
or it has escaped people -- how CPU's have gotten blazing fast.
we can't notice of coure due to how software is these days. your average desktop CPU might have 8Cores / 16 threads.
if you rent a dedicated machine n skip the 'cloud sharing' your average web app -- won't be able to exhaust a single machine with 128GB Ram to 2TB Ram and 64 core CPU. Now we're talking about 288 Cores with the Intel Efficient CPU's.
- marginalia_nu 2y agoCPUs have had an enormous performance boost over the last few years and I do indeed think it's happened without many realizing. For a big part of the 2010s CPUs were kind of stagnant since Intel didn't really have much competition and was happy resting on their laurels and dropping slow incremental upgrades (like a 2012 CPU and a 2016 CPU were basically the same), and AMD were floundering and playing catch up, but when they did catch up and really blow past Intel, it really lit a fire under Intel's ass and now there's real competition for x86 CPUs again. I think it's a pretty favorable description of cloud providers that they will sell you 2015 performance for 2024 dollars.
- rbanffy 2y agoIt’s quite incredible how the cores themselves got faster - I was betting on that stagnation and core count increases, but, it seems, they have managed to delay that point for a very long time, and with no wall in sight for now. Having said that, making software more parallel is still a good investment.