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Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) by swiley on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @06:07AM (#16428594)
There are limits to how much parallelism will improve things, see amdahl's law.
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Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) by kamaal on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @09:01AM (#16429457)
Sure, but let's start moving towards parallelism first. May be a few decades from now we would be close to breaking those limits.
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Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) by Something1234 on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @06:04PM (#16433765)
That law is a fact of life. Its a form of diminishing returns, there's only so much you can do.
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