On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:50:26PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Yes but don't forget that your 30% performance hit just got erased > 6 months later when you bought a CPU that is twice as fast! Moore's > Law takes care of that 30%. You could say the same thing about > high level langs, GUIs, JVMs, etc.
That is not what Moore's law states. http://www.intel.com/technology/silicon/mooreslaw/ In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore saw the future. His prediction, popularly known as Moore's Law, states that the number of transistors on a chip doubles about every two years. Note this has nothing to do with density, nor with speed. Let's assume, though, that speed did double. So while your 30% performance hit kernel has caught up to speed, the full speed kernel is still 30% faster. TIme may improve all things, but all things get improved. Something that lacks will still lack. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
