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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday January 28 2018, @11:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the RIP dept.

Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd

Hammered by the finance of physics and the weaponisation of optimisation, Moore's Law has hit the wall, bounced off - and reversed direction. We're driving backwards now: all things IT will become slower, harder and more expensive.

That doesn't mean there won't some rare wins - GPUs and other dedicated hardware have a bit more life left in them. But for the mainstay of IT, general purpose computing, last month may be as good as it ever gets.

Going forward, the game changes from "cheaper and faster" to "sleeker and wiser". Software optimisations - despite their Spectre-like risks - will take the lead over the next decades, as Moore's Law fades into a dimly remembered age when the cornucopia of process engineering gave us everything we ever wanted.

From here on in, we're going to have to work for it.

It's well past the time that we move from improving performance by increasing clock speeds and transistor counts; it's been time to move on to increasing performance wherever possible by writing better parallel processing code.

Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/24/death_notice_for_moores_law/


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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday January 28 2018, @02:27PM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday January 28 2018, @02:27PM (#629453) Journal

    Too bad you have to decide: Either keep you extensions and get no performance upgrade, or get a performance upgrade but lose your extensions.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 29 2018, @11:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 29 2018, @11:02AM (#629768)

    Particularly when your extensions are intended (uBlock, Flashblock, noScript) to improve performance by disabling the new whizzbang.