Re: Overview Of New Intel Core i7(Nehalem) Processor

On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:33:42 +0100, Nobody <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:54:18 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

Can we never hope that more hardware resources will allow simplicity?

Sure. You just have to be willing to waste them on a large scale.

Sounds good to me.

Me too.

Computers are cheaper than people, and the useful lifespan of computer
software is shrinking even faster than the performance/price ratio of
hardware is increasing.

Even in general office use (PC + Windows + MS-Office), the software costs
almost as much as the hardware. Once you start getting into specialised
applications, the software can cost fifty times the hardware.

A language which allowed applications to be written in half the time at
the expense of requiring double the processing power would be a net win in
most cases. More generally: for time/N and CPU*N for quite a wide range of
N, IMHO.

And any Luddites wanting to run hand-crafted asm/C would still reap the
benefits of the "bloat" forcing hardware prices down.

I still do embedded stuff in assembly, but mostly because I like it. I
doubt that any other language would save me a lot of net time, because
I spend more time figuring out what to do than I spend coding.

John



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