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The computational "free lunch", IMHO, ends way earlier before Moore's Law hits the wall. Far from a well-established point, and please do correct me if I am wr
by eva1984 12y ago
The computational "free lunch", IMHO, ends way earlier before Moore's Law hits the wall.
Far from a well-established point, and please do correct me if I am wrong, but ever since some point around 2008, the performance gain from CPU upgrade becomes kind of stuck, which sticks to around 10%-15% between generation.
- vlasev 12y agoHowever 10-15% percent per generation is still exponential growth if the cycle length is roughly the same. Just slower.
- higherpurpose 12y agoSince IVB it's been more like 0-5 percent. Intel has decided to focus on reducing power consumption and keeping performance the same, since that's much easier to do now.
- whyever 12y agoIt is also much more reasonable, as memory is usually the bottleneck anyway.
- eleitl 12y agoHave you looked at (really) random-access memory bandwidth?
- marcosdumay 12y agoIt's not really exponential if the number keeps going down on each generation.