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Thread : What happens when we dont need more CPU power?
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Profile: stranger
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Alright, we`ve come pretty far as processing power goes.
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Profile: addict
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We make a need, or we just do wasteful stuff to use the proccesing power for the heck of it, like modeling the physics of what happens when your computers molecular structure is ripped apart in a nuclear explosion, or if it was tossed into the center of the sun. |
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Or Microsoft will release an OS that will need more CPU power than the previous version. |
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Profile: enthusiast
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You will always need more processing power, if only because programmers are lazy and management is looking for shorter and shorter development times. Perhaps you recall small (in today's terms) programs running under DOS? Some were even hand-crafted assembly code, to wring the maximum performance out of an 8MHz CPU & 640K of RAM. Look at how far we've come - there are some true improvements, but I see more bloatware than ever. Even crap code runs fast under a 4GHz CPU with 8GB of RAM. --------------- Perfect is almost good enough. |
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There's never enough processing power!! --------------- Evil lurks in the databanks as it lurked in the streets of yesteryear. But it was never the streets that were evil. Over 50. Seen it, done it, can't remember it. |
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--------------- UNIX is user-friendly- it's just picky who its friends are. DRM is slowly killing personal computing, one Sony rootkit and TPM chip at a time. |
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Profile: stranger
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Yeah i got the answer which makes me stop thinking about it.
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Profile: enthusiast
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Nobody needs CPU power at all.
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Profile: member
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There's plenty of room for growth - imagine sitting down at your computer and having the application already loaded because the AI built into your OS decided that, at 6pm on a tuesday night, you were most likely planning on using whatever program you usually use.
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Profile: addict
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We were kind of discussing this at work a while back; whereas ten years ago we'd have been writing in C or assembler with highly optimised code cut back to the bare minimum, today we can develop faster in Java than C or C++, not waste much time worrying about optimisation, take far more care over dealing with data which could cause crashes (e.g. buffer overflows) and load the software up with far more instrumentation that allows us to remotely debug it if it does crash.
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Profile: addict
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I didn't read other poeple answer, so sorry if I'm repeating what as already been said.
--------------- My new PC: E6600 OC to 3.0+GHZ 6GB OCZ DDR2@833 (4-4-4-15) Asus P5B Deluxe |
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Profile: stranger
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AMD SMAMD, INTEL SMINTEL
Profile: addict
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Profile: stranger
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Computing Power stagnating ?
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Profile: addict
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At the current rate of growth this will never be an issue. The only case where we wouldn't need more power would be if we suddenly switched to one of those 1000x faster processor types... and then we'd only be in that situation for about a year or 2 as programmers discovered how to maximize that power. Then the speed war would continue as it always has. |
