Well, there are no guarantees about what we’ll see in the future, but here’s some stats for what’s come in the past: http://pages.experts-exchange.com/processing-power-compared/ e.g. from 1956 through to 2015 has seen a trillion-fold increase in FLOPs. Something that would have been a 5000 year problem in 1956 probably would been solved a decade ago.
To Greg’s point – storage access speeds have also been increasing pretty quickly. I believe Samsung showed off a 16TB 2.5” flash drive recently, with a demo of 48 of these in a server, providing 768TB of storage, and 2m IOPS. That’s only going to get faster and faster over time. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bec C Sent: Friday, 11 September 2015 4:59 PM To: ozDotNet <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Odd text encoding I get your point Ken but is power really increasing at such a rate? On Friday, 11 September 2015, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: And what would those numbers have looked like 2 years ago? 4 years ago? 10 years ago? Assuming computing power doubles every 18-24 months, then that 5444 years will become a lot less, relatively quickly. From: [email protected]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> [mailto:[email protected]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Friday, 11 September 2015 10:15 AM To: ozDotNet <[email protected]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> Subject: Re: Odd text encoding but because they were concerned about the possibility of running out of bigint values. (Clearly it’s a pity more maths isn’t taught at schools). My PC can do a for int loop up to 2^30 in about 20 seconds. To get to 2^63 non-stop it will take 5444 years -- GK
