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/
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday January 28 2018, @06:49PM (2 children)
This ain't Slashdot buddy. You don't even need your Mulligan because you won't be modded down unless you get racial or insult Larry Wall.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 28 2018, @08:00PM (1 child)
Its been here too. Remember slash code holds this site up. My AC was blocked for a few more NTSB. But I pointed out they only blocked one machine me out 8 I use all the time. Then I have VMs to give extra access.
But again live on the bleeding edge. One vote and I am gone. One vote makes me relevant. This means having to be sure to make meaningful posts that may support or not the conversation. I started doing this once my account was untouchable was preset to post higher because of my points. I like the work to it.
(Score: 1) by linuxrocks123 on Monday January 29 2018, @12:22AM
You know you can just check "No karma bonus", right?