This may have been true in the past (I still wouldn't agree completely), but with the changes in hardware that we've been seeing lately, performance gains aren't going to come for free. The Alpha was a great chip, but it's almost a decade old. The free ride of increasing clocks is over. The performance gains of the future are going to require human interaction, i.e., developers.
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This may have been true in the past (I still wouldn't agree completely), but with the changes in hardware that we've been seeing lately, performance gains aren't going to come for free. The Alpha was a great chip, but it's almost a decade old. The free ride of increasing clocks is over. The performance gains of the future are going to require human interaction, i.e., developers.