alt Hacker NewsAnd the highest latency was a Symbolics Lisp machine from 1986. It's not the transistor count, it's the depth of the abstraction stack.
And the highest latency was a Symbolics Lisp machine from 1986. It's not the transistor count, it's the depth of the abstraction stack.
In particular it's the depth of the abstraction stack divided by transistor count. Wirth's Law: "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law