Exciting times for all of us. It's been a fun ride so far, with more in store. :)
On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 at 13:17 Ken Schaefer <k...@adopenstatic.com> wrote: > Well, there are no guarantees about what we’ll see in the future, but > here’s some stats for what’s come in the past: > > http://pages.experts-exchange.com/processing-power-compared/ > > e.g. from 1956 through to 2015 has seen a trillion-fold increase in FLOPs. > Something that would have been a 5000 year problem in 1956 probably would > been solved a decade ago. > > > > To Greg’s point – storage access speeds have also been increasing pretty > quickly. I believe Samsung showed off a 16TB 2.5” flash drive recently, > with a demo of 48 of these in a server, providing 768TB of storage, and 2m > IOPS. That’s only going to get faster and faster over time. > > > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: > ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Bec C > *Sent:* Friday, 11 September 2015 4:59 PM > > > *To:* ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> > *Subject:* Re: Odd text encoding > > > > I get your point Ken but is power really increasing at such a rate? > > On Friday, 11 September 2015, Ken Schaefer <k...@adopenstatic.com> wrote: > > And what would those numbers have looked like 2 years ago? 4 years ago? 10 > years ago? > > > > Assuming computing power doubles every 18-24 months, then that 5444 years > will become a lot less, relatively quickly. > > > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: > ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Greg Keogh > *Sent:* Friday, 11 September 2015 10:15 AM > *To:* ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> > *Subject:* Re: Odd text encoding > > > > but because they were concerned about the possibility of running out of > bigint values. (Clearly it’s a pity more maths isn’t taught at schools). > > > > My PC can do a for int loop up to 2^30 in about 20 seconds. To get to 2^63 > non-stop it will take 5444 years -- *GK* > >
