Re:Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class
by acchow on Monday May 03, 2021 @06:38PM
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A quick lookup for CPU speeds of yesteryear shows the Motorola 68040 in those macs did about 35 MFLOPS [1].
If you could parallelize this program to use all 2.6 TFLOPS in a Macbook Air M1's 8-core GPU, you're seeing about 75,000x speed improvement. So a 12 hour "overnight" job may take just over half a second.
If you could parallelize this program to use all 2.6 TFLOPS in a Macbook Air M1's 8-core GPU, you're seeing about 75,000x speed improvement. So a 12 hour "overnight" job may take just over half a second.
[1] https://tech-insider.org/mac/research/1991/1021-e.html