Re:24-core CPU and I can’t type an email – part two
by wenc on Thursday August 23, 2018 @10:30AM
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UI and user-facing elements are largely dependent on perception and I/O (human and computer), and the band of improvement there is narrow.
Also, I/O is often the bottleneck, which is why most people perceive a speed increase moving from spinning platters to SSDs. If you move stuff to RAM, I bet you'd see another perceptible speed increase. (I've recently started using the RAM-backed /dev/shm on Linux for transient, throwaway data generated by my programs, and boy it is fast.)
I have a Linux machine running on a Core 2 Duo machine (2005) at home and an Core i7 (2017) at work. An "ls -la" feels about the same on both. But when I try to train an ML model, the difference is stark and perceptible.
Also, I/O is often the bottleneck, which is why most people perceive a speed increase moving from spinning platters to SSDs. If you move stuff to RAM, I bet you'd see another perceptible speed increase. (I've recently started using the RAM-backed /dev/shm on Linux for transient, throwaway data generated by my programs, and boy it is fast.)
I have a Linux machine running on a Core 2 Duo machine (2005) at home and an Core i7 (2017) at work. An "ls -la" feels about the same on both. But when I try to train an ML model, the difference is stark and perceptible.