Re:Chip Design Shifts as Fundamental Laws Run Out of Steam
by rbanffy on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @06:26AM
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> As the rate of progress has fallen off
I don't quite feel that - one side of it is that my current computers cover my necessities well enough, but it's still quite impressive how even more instantaneous is the boot of a new computer in comparison to my daily drivers. For the rest, computers have been "fast enough" for me for some time now.
Maybe I should move to big data and machine learning...
> Back when I started programming as a teen in 1980 with 4k of RAM and ~1 Mhz 8-bit CPUs
I really miss those days. OTOH, just like my modern laptop, my Apple II could cold-start (from disk!) in 2-ish seconds.
I don't quite feel that - one side of it is that my current computers cover my necessities well enough, but it's still quite impressive how even more instantaneous is the boot of a new computer in comparison to my daily drivers. For the rest, computers have been "fast enough" for me for some time now.
Maybe I should move to big data and machine learning...
> Back when I started programming as a teen in 1980 with 4k of RAM and ~1 Mhz 8-bit CPUs
I really miss those days. OTOH, just like my modern laptop, my Apple II could cold-start (from disk!) in 2-ish seconds.