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Re:The world could run on older hardware if software optimiz... by voidspark on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @06:57AM (#43983023)
As the other guy said, top of the line CPUs today are roughly ~100x faster than 20 years ago. A single core is ~10x faster (in terms of instructions per second) and we have ~10x the number of cores.
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Re:The world could run on older hardware if software optimiz... by topaz0 on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @09:14AM (#43984153)
And the memory quantity, memory speed, disk speed are also vastly higher now than 20 years ago.
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