Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014)

Post by wiz21c » Wed, Feb 21, 2018, 9:46 AM UTC

mjfl wrote: post #8

I took a class that went over this in depth like 3-4 years ago. Basically the message was that serial performance is saturating, and the only way to get speed improvements in the future is going to be by exploiting parallelism. However, most programmers, and programming languages, remain stuck in a serial-by-default paradigm. I'm surprised that there hasn't emerged a "parallel-by-default C++" kind of language + hardw…

Post by pjmlp » Wed, Feb 21, 2018, 9:48 AM UTC

mjfl wrote: post #8

I took a class that went over this in depth like 3-4 years ago. Basically the message was that serial performance is saturating, and the only way to get speed improvements in the future is going to be by exploiting parallelism. However, most programmers, and programming languages, remain stuck in a serial-by-default paradigm. I'm surprised that there hasn't emerged a "parallel-by-default C++" kind of language + hardw…

Post by M_Bakhtiari » Wed, Feb 21, 2018, 9:51 AM UTC

Post by madez » Wed, Feb 21, 2018, 9:52 AM UTC

mjfl wrote: post #8

I took a class that went over this in depth like 3-4 years ago. Basically the message was that serial performance is saturating, and the only way to get speed improvements in the future is going to be by exploiting parallelism. However, most programmers, and programming languages, remain stuck in a serial-by-default paradigm. I'm surprised that there hasn't emerged a "parallel-by-default C++" kind of language + hardw…

Post by hackme1234 » Wed, Feb 21, 2018, 9:52 AM UTC

ksec wrote: post #14

Until we have another material that could replace silicon. Not sure if we will see this happen in the next ten to twenty years.