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Re:How “latency numbers everybody should know” decreased fro... by DonHopkins on Thursday March 03, 2022 @05:35PM (#30547978)
At what point did Joy's Law -- "2^(year-1884) MIPS" -- break with reality?

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/bill-joys-law-2-year-1984-mil...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy%27s_law_(computing)

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Re:How “latency numbers everybody should know” decreased fro... by IncRnd on Thursday March 03, 2022 @11:29PM (#30550709)
> At what point did Joy's Law -- "2^(year-1884) MIPS" -- break with reality?

It was never really true. PS It is formulated as 1984 not 1884, though. 1884 throws off MIPS calculations by 2^100 or 10^30.

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