Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 16:06:01 02/28/03
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On February 28, 2003 at 18:58:09, Dann Corbit wrote: >It's not the CPU speed we need to worry about. It's the memory bandwidth. >Memory speed increases only linearly, while CPU speeds tend to increase >exponentially. It has already become a significant problem. Unless a >breakthrough occurs, the speed of the CPU will at some point become irrelevant, >because the memory cannot possibly feed it fast enough. Just turn off hash tables and you're good to go again. -Tom
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