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- From: pmetzger@snark.shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger)
- Subject: Re: Are interpreters now as fast as compiled code used to be?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.200417.7242@shearson.com>
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- References: <FEELEY.92Dec14215701@zohar.ai.mit.edu> <4067@mitech.com> <FEELEY.92Dec15153031@zohar.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 20:04:17 GMT
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- feeley@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Marc Feeley) writes:
- >Well a factor of 3 for the last decade is clearly not valid but for
- >the next 5 years it might be. DEC's Alpha introduced this year (200 MIPS
- >or so) is about 3 times faster than last year's HP9000/700 (70 MIPS).
- >If next year DEC comes out with their BIPS processor (1000 MIPS) my
- >factor of 3 seems about right.
- >
- >Clearly this increase in performance will level off at some point in
- >the future.[...]
-
- Well, SOMEDAY it will likely level off, but there are no signs that
- this will happen before we start hitting fundamental barriers imposed
- by physics. See Drexler's seminal book on nanotechnology "Engines of
- Creation" for some idea of how far we still have to go and what will
- soon be possible.
-
- However, isn't this all getting pretty far from scheme?
- --
- Perry Metzger pmetzger@shearson.com
- --
- "They can have my RSA key when they pry it from my cold dead fingers."
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