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Originally Posted by wbt
Understand that the processor is not the bottleneck in a computer's performance today. The slowest subsystem today is storage. I.E. harddrive.
What you are seeing in machines today that was not possible a few years ago is parallel processing. More physical cores per processor. I.E. 2, 3, 6, 8, 12 core processors are on the market at this moment. This is the equivalent to running several physical processors in your machine several years ago. Processing capacity has increased 10 fold.
Storage subsystems are progressing and may even merge with memory subsystems in the not so distant future. Another leap in computing capacity.
None of this takes into account biometric computing which is on the near horizon too.
We live in an exciting time and as long as we don't destroy ourselves, the next 100 years will be the most prominent time in the existence of the human race.
A bit "outside of the box" thinking but this is where we are headed.  |
Most important part is highlighted. Cranking up the speed more and more wasn't affecting the true bottlenecks of a multitasking operating system. That if you ask it to do more than one thing (especially if its complex) at a time it slows down significantly by splitting the power between everything. It started with GPUs on video cards for gaming and prior to that CAD/CAM, offloading the graphic needs to a separate processor. Now multi core processors allow a power user or gamer to do multiple complex tasks with no slowdown. So the individual task can have the full attention of a CPU.
Exciting times indeed!