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On a practical level it certainly matters for single threaded applications. They're just not benefiting like they should. Formally, Moore's law is just about t
by drzaiusapelord 12y ago
On a practical level it certainly matters for single threaded applications. They're just not benefiting like they should.
Formally, Moore's law is just about transistor density not performance, so this is all academic. Historically, density was tied to performance. That's just not true anymore and hasn't been for at least a decade.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> Formally, Moore's law is just about transistor density not performance Formally, it was about number of components per integrated circuit, not density of components (though related observations about density and performance were made very early on, and the 18 month, rather than two year, version actually is about performance, but wasn't from Moore.) > Historically, density was tied to performance. Its still tied to overall performance (computations performable b the chip in a given period of time). Its not tied to per core (i.e., single-threaded) performance when the larger number of components is divided among multiple cores, and that does make it harder to make full use of the available performance in some applications. But that doesn't mean Moore's Law is dead, it just means that more programming skills (possibly, outsourced to the creators of better programming languages/tools) are needed to fully take advantage of the available performance.