On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 7:41 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht < [email protected]> wrote:
> John McKown wrote: > > >Opinion article on Vulture Central about the end of an era for Moore's > Law. > >http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/24/death_notice_for_moores_law/ > > Hmmmm, I usually read those register articles with a pinch of salt, but it > seemed they have something today ... > > Shift is now apparently on software algoritms instead of hardware > optimization and improvements ... > I have a vague memory from long ago. When RISC machines were first coming out (IIRC), it was said that the days of CISC machines were over because the compilers on the RISC would do all the optimization needed for high performance. I.e. a lot of the "out of order" sequencing (to avoid AGI & optimize register usage) would be done by the compilers instead of the hardware. That is one argument used by IBM for people to use Metal C instead of HLASM. > > Ok, here is an interesting article describing that law 'number of > transistors doubles in about 2 years'. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law > > Enjoy... > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
