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by otabdeveloper4 2034 days ago
Well, no.

When people talk of "Moore's law", they really imply that there's a huge class of problems that get solved automatically just because transistors get smaller and smaller.

This hasn't been true for a long while now. Yes, technology get better with time, but we don't get things like 32 cores in a PC just because transistors shrunk; smart people worked really hard to optimize this stuff.

TL;DR - there's no more free lunch in computing anymore.

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> smart people worked really hard to optimize this stuff

This was always the case, it was just simpler before. Lunch was never free, it's just getting a few percent more expansive every year.