alt Hacker NewsIn the 1970s computer systems spanned fewer orders of magnitude. Operations generally took somewhere between maybe 1 and 10^8 CPU cycles. Today, the range is closer to 10^-1 to 10^13.
In the 1970s computer systems spanned fewer orders of magnitude. Operations generally took somewhere between maybe 1 and 10^8 CPU cycles. Today, the range is closer to 10^-1 to 10^13.