Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:08:45 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Moore's law (was Re: [patch 0/9] mutex subsystem, -V4) |
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On Thu 05-01-06 16:30:59, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Monday 26 December 2005 01:33, Pavel Machek wrote: > > [cc list from hell trimmed down]
> > :-) Expressing performance increases in Moore's hours seems like > > neat trick. OTOH I do not think it is valid any more. Single-threaded > > performance stopped increasing 2 years ago AFAICS. > > It's not true. e.g. a 2.6 Ghz FX-57 is significantly faster than the > top end CPU you could get 2 years ago. And I'm sure this years CPUs > will be still faster than last years.
Well, but it is no longer 2x as fast...
> > Plus people are > > pushing Linux onto smaller machines, that were unavailable 2 years > > ago. > > Even smaller systems are still getting faster.
Yep. OTOH this is the first time when *average* linux box is getting *slower* -- mostly due to massive ammount of cheap, linux-based wifi access points on the market.
(Average linux desktop box is still gettting faster, though) -- Thanks, Sharp! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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