From esr at thyrsus.com Tue Feb 1 15:17:12 2005 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============6386781917054473264==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Eric S. Raymond To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: radical suggestion for fc4 release Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:15:58 -0500 Message-ID: <20050201201558.GA7237@thyrsus.com> In-Reply-To: 1107287643.12273.9.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com --===============6386781917054473264== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Bryan O'Sullivan : > On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 21:44 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > = > > Is that a problem? Processors are speeding up faster than media are > > getting larger -- thus, trdsing clocks for space seems like the > > right thing. > = > Processors are not speeding up at all, to a first approximation. > Haven't you noticed? Moore's law stopped operating about two years ago. Pedantry... Yes, speed increases in single processors have stalled. Which is why there are a lot more SMP and multicore systems deployed now. Clocks per dollar seems to be continuing to rise on a roughly 2^n curve, even though clocks per processor aren't. -- = Eric S. Raymond --===============6386781917054473264==--