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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/
(Score: 2) by turgid on Sunday January 28 2018, @04:38PM (2 children)
In my humble experience. it's difficult enough to get "professional software developers" to write working single-threaded code let alone multi-threaded or any other sort of fancy parallel stuff. We have an industry built on hubris and ego.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 3, Insightful) by TheRaven on Monday January 29 2018, @11:35AM (1 child)
sudo mod me up
(Score: 3, Funny) by turgid on Monday January 29 2018, @11:47AM
Yes, but we live in a world policed by the C++ Inquisition. Amongst their weapons are platitudes, condescension, hand-waving, obfuscation, appeal to authority, not-invented-here, comfy chairs...
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].