[OT] Maximum performance on single processor ?

[Robert G. Brown]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Robert Myers wrote:

> The only no-brains speedup strategy that could work is the most powerful 
> speed-up strategy of all: wait a couple of years for off-the-shelf 
> hardware to get faster.

Hmm, Moore's law assuming a very optimistic annual doubling requires

  log_2(1024) = 10 years

to get a kilospeedup.  Your conclusions remains unchallenged -- this
problem will only resolve with the investment of serious human energy
redoing the application -- maybe.  Or a (literal) "quantum leap" -- if
quantum computers mature sooner than ten years.  Assuming that QC's
don't require novel, intrinsically parallel programming in their own
right and won't just run off-the-shelf serial fortran all that fast.

   rgb

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