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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."

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  1. Transistor increase with software? by F.Ultra · · Score: 5, Informative

    So how did they magically increase the number of transistors using software? Oh whait, someone didn't know what Moore's law was...