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Progress In Algorithms Beats Moore's Law

Posted by timothy on from the when-bottlenecks-swap dept.

Relic of the Future writes "Seen on the blog 'Algorithmic Game Theory,' a report to congress and the president about past and future advances in information technology notes that, while improvements in hardware accounted for an approximate 1,000 fold increase in calculation speed over a 15-year time-span, improvements in algorithms accounted for an over 43,000 fold increase."

4 of 166 comments (clear)

  1. But we made up in ... by sourcerror · · Score: 4, Funny

    more bloated GUI libraries (bling), and comfier runtimes (different VMs).

  2. What Good Lord Giveth ... by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 5, Funny

    What the Good Lord Algorithmic Efficiency Improvements giveth, the Evil Lord Real-Time-Virus-Scanner taketh away.

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    sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
  3. Re:First post algo by bersl2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Doubles and higher-order tuples are an ongoing topic of research, much less mature than research on first posts.

  4. And yet ... by PPH · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... Murphy still holds the lead.

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    Have gnu, will travel.