On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:46:29AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Tue, 31 May 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Moore's Law governs the rate at which the speed of hardware (at a given > > price-point) doubles. It says nothing about the speed at which current > > software will *run* on current machines; and it certainly has nothing to say > > about the speed at which such software will run on machines that are no > > longer on the Moore's Law curve due to a lack of new hardware being > > designed/manufactured for that architecture. > > Actually, doesn't Moore's Law mean the average for all new silicon? So, some > cutting-edge new hardware may evolve faster than the average. No, it's just the rate of growth of one given *line* of chips. The 'fastest chip available' has never really followed it, too many external factors. Although it may do now that x86-64 is going mainstream; the principal reason it's never worked historically is because the 'fastest' machines have been obscure stuff that gets fucked for business reasons. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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