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The bigger story is how Moore's law has switched from "faster and faster" to "more and more cores". Many people (for example Rich Hickey the guy behind Clojure)
by lacker 18y ago
The bigger story is how Moore's law has switched from "faster and faster" to "more and more cores". Many people (for example Rich Hickey the guy behind Clojure) point to this as evidence that parallel programming will become more important soon.
- tjic 18y agoMoore's law was ALWAYS about the number of transistors. Speed was a side effect. The original formulation was that the transistor count on an IC doubles every year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law#History