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 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,

Re: Odd text encoding

Ah but the issue is how many rows you can write into a table. That's a bit more work than a for loop :-) Regards Greg Dr Greg Low SQL Down Under +61 419201410 1300SQLSQL (1300775775) On 11 Sep 2015, at 5:16 pm, Greg Keogh > wrote: Assuming

Re: Odd text encoding

> > Assuming computing power doubles every 18-24 months, then that 5444 years >> will become a lot less, relatively quickly. >> > I didn't mention that counting to 2^63 is eminently parallelizable, so lets divide up a small fraction of the free internet computing power on the problem and see how

RE: Odd text encoding

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