{"id":185,"date":"2008-12-18T19:11:31","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T00:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/18\/fast-enough-or-not-enough-fast\/"},"modified":"2008-12-18T19:39:03","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T00:39:03","slug":"fast-enough-or-not-enough-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/18\/fast-enough-or-not-enough-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Enough or Not Enough Fast?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230;people are now willing to make trade-offs <em>against<\/em> performance. For the entire history of the PC industry, computers have been too slow, so trade-offs were made in favor of faster CPUs: higher prices and heavier laptops. But today, for many common tasks, the type of CPU you get when you build a $400 lightweight laptop is fast enough. That\u2019s (a) breakthrough.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2008\/12\/18\/netbookse\">John Gruber<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cynically I also wonder if this is because &#8220;more cores&#8221; isn&#8217;t as compelling as <em>faster<\/em>.  As <a href=\"http:\/\/whydoeseverythingsuck.com\/2008\/06\/false-hope-of-apples-snow-leopard.html\">Hank Williams says<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The problem of multi-core computing is really very simple. As most of us have experienced, every problem *can\u2019t* be solved better or faster with more people. Some problems can be solved faster by adding a few people, but most problems cannot. In truth, most problems can best, or only be solved by one person at a time. And so it is with computing. The vast majority of problems can only be solved by one logic thread at a time. The reason is obvious. For most process-oriented work, step B is based on the results of step A. And step C is based on the results of step B, and so on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;people are now willing to make trade-offs against performance. For the entire history of the PC industry, computers have been too slow, so trade-offs were made in favor of faster CPUs: higher prices and heavier laptops. But today, for many common tasks, the type of CPU you get when you build a $400 lightweight laptop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8],"tags":[117,259,158],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-usability","tag-futurism","tag-multi-core","tag-optimization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}