Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 21:44 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > Is that a problem? Processors are speeding up faster than media are > > getting larger -- thus, trdsing clocks for space seems like the > > right thing. > > Processors are not speeding up at all, to a first approximation. > Haven't you noticed? Moore's law stopped operating about two years ago. Pedantry... Yes, speed increases in single processors have stalled. Which is why there are a lot more SMP and multicore systems deployed now. Clocks per dollar seems to be continuing to rise on a roughly 2^n curve, even though clocks per processor aren't. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
