On 04/11/2018 11:31 AM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. via cctalk wrote: > Besides getting more performance with smaller transistors, we have also > been increasing performance by taking advantage of more transistors by > doing more stuff in parallel. So we went from up to dozens of clock > cycles per instructions to three or four instructions per clock cycle. > Quite a few of the additional transistors have been use for more and > more layers of caches.
As one old acquaintance said "We've given up on reducing the time it takes one woman to produce a baby. Our new approach is to use nine women to get a baby in one month" ...or something to that effect. --Chuck
