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Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) by ajross on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @01:02PM (#16431461)
> But it would be much better if a single language + hardware system emerged

There will, but it takes time. The world of scalar hardware in the 1970's was no less fragmented. Honestly most of the incompatibilities in the SIMD world at this point are bugs and not fundamental problems. The vector world has settled on a broad architecture at this point for most things.

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Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) by fulafel on Thursday February 22, 2018 @12:43AM (#16435384)
Maybe. I feel is's at least equally likely that app dev perceived ROI on GPGPU will get worse due to relative slowdown in GPU advances and increasing parallel programming productivity on CPUs, and an attractive GPGPU platform won't emerge before it's irrelevant.
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