Re:Next year's computers same speed but more cores/cpus: dev...
by fauigerzigerk on Thursday October 01, 2009 @04:01AM
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old apps on old hardware are a similar speed to today's apps on today's hardware.
Maybe, but very often they don't do the same thing, which makes the comparison useless.
I don't remember being able to search and rank billions of documents in sub second time back in the 90s or mine terrabytes of data to find cures for cancer. We now do predictive analytics where we did quarterly reporting in the 80s and 90s.
Let's not view computing primarily as word processing with 500MB of bloat added in each new version :-)
Maybe, but very often they don't do the same thing, which makes the comparison useless.
I don't remember being able to search and rank billions of documents in sub second time back in the 90s or mine terrabytes of data to find cures for cancer. We now do predictive analytics where we did quarterly reporting in the 80s and 90s.
Let's not view computing primarily as word processing with 500MB of bloat added in each new version :-)