Imagine being told in 2001 that America would still be at war in Afghanistan in 2018, and it would not be a political issue. And that CPUs wouldn't get significantly faster than the 3.5GHz one Intel demoed that year. What the hell.
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Replying to @Pinboard
They are significantly faster just not by arbitrarily increasing clock. Efficiency per clock went way up. The P4 was kind of a bogus design as it optimized for raw clock speed at the expense of everything else.
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Replying to @codinghorror @Pinboard
Yes! This chart is out of date and only one measure (especially considering parallel, IO and RAM performance hops over 17 years) but it shows how far things have come (vaguely). Flops is a better measure than the somewhat arbitrary unit of frequency. Note the logarithmic scale.pic.twitter.com/em3JLjeo12
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A less facetious way of stating my point is that the inflection point around 2004 is significant and ruined a lot of people's good predictions about how we would just end up uploading ourselves to the Pentium LXVII
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