[vox] Moore's law coming to an end

[Alex Mandel]

The wikipedia peanut gallery seems to agree/disagree and it all depends
on your definition of what Moore's law really means. If you talk about
the literal definition of the shrinking of transistors, that end may
come at some pt, but that doesn't mean transistors won't be replaced by
something else or that performance will still grow at the same rate due
to other methods. Personally I like the point on the page that now that
transistors have gotten so small you can start making bigger chips that
pack more in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law

Enjoy,
Alex

On 11/07/2011 03:58 PM, Darth Borehd wrote:
> People have been saying its coming to an end for years.  It hasn't happened
> yet and I doubt it ever will.
> 
> 
> On 7 November 2011 11:36, Brian Lavender <brian at brie.com> wrote:
> 
>> As Moore's Law comes to a close, it appears that we will see more
>> concurrent programming!
>> Simple Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming (SCOOP) looks very
>> interesting.
>> http://docs.eiffel.com/book/solutions/concurrent-eiffel-scoop
>>
>> I have long been an admirer of Eiffel, but I have yet to work with it in
>> detail.
>>
>> brian
>> --
>> Brian Lavender
>> http://www.brie.com/brian/
>>
>> "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
>> make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
>> way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
>>
>> Professor C. A. R. Hoare
>> The 1980 Turing award lecture