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Re:Cutting the speed of ships has benefits for humans, natur... by ajdlinux on Monday November 11, 2019 @08:47AM (#21504769)
This analogy is completely broken, obviously.

But off-topic: I wonder what computers would look like if there _were_ arbitrary restrictions like that. What directions would we have pursued in microarchitecture, distributed systems, etc etc if there was a regulation capping clock speed or number of transistors, or a rule that made it illegal to have asymmetric network connections?

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Re:Cutting the speed of ships has benefits for humans, natur... by clarry on Monday November 11, 2019 @09:45AM (#21505200)
Look at mobile CPUs? What limits them might have arised naturally, but it's still quite arbitrary (battery life, cooling capacity).
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Re:Cutting the speed of ships has benefits for humans, natur... by bharam on Monday November 11, 2019 @09:35AM (#21505114)
Enlighten me. How is the analogy broken?
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Re:Cutting the speed of ships has benefits for humans, natur... by rpmisms on Monday November 11, 2019 @11:13AM (#21505968)
Electronic devices != giant diesel engines with very very specific use cases.
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Re:Cutting the speed of ships has benefits for humans, natur... by undersuit on Monday November 11, 2019 @08:42PM (#21510772)
A faster computer can shutdown or enter a lower power mode earlier. The base power draw of a computer hardly changes if you replace just the processor with a faster clocked one.
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