blackraven36

blackraven36 t1_it3ht7v wrote

Moore’s law has been killed by bad headlines every week for the last decade.

Computing power isn’t entirely about how many registers you can put into a chip. Anything from memory bandwidth to multi-threading has a substantial effect on performance.

Focusing on just the size of the register is like saying “I doubled the displacement of my engine” You’ll see performance increase but that’s not the end all way to improving power.

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blackraven36 t1_is8olsm wrote

Ah yes you see obsessing about hitting “the numbers” has worked so incredibly well for everyone! And after no thought or deliberation we put this gloriously successful tactic into our schools!

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