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by gameswithgo
2355 days ago
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except now it has actually been true for years.
clock rates aren't increasing.
advances in performance have been only from things that are tricky for developers to efficiently leverage (cache, simd, more cores). We need developers who understand these new low level details as much now as we needed that kind of developer in the past. |
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Sure it is true. It isn't a tech journo writing a quick piece to get some clicks. I am quite cynical these days.
There hasn't been any competition in the Desktop CPU space for years until 2019.
Also clock rates haven't increased since the mid-2000s (there were 5ghz P4 chips). Clock rates being an indication of speed stopped being a thing back then when I could buy a "slower" clocked Athlon XP chip that was comparable to a P4 with a faster clock.
Also more stuff is getting offloaded from the CPU to custom chips (usually the GPU).
> We need developers who understand these new low level details as much now as we needed that kind of developer in the past.
I suspect that there will get better compiler and languages. I work with .NET stuff and the performance increase from a rewrite to .NET core is ridiculous.