Re:What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1
by sliverstorm on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @02:48PM
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That depends. Money spent on hardware buys you linear performance improvements. Algorithmic improvements can buy you exponential performance improvements.
There is most certainly a point where money spent on hardware gives a better return, but all the hardware in the world couldn't net you acceptable runtimes using bubblesort on colossal datasets.
There is most certainly a point where money spent on hardware gives a better return, but all the hardware in the world couldn't net you acceptable runtimes using bubblesort on colossal datasets.