Ask HN: How close is modern computing to vintage computing wrt. efficiency?
In a world where we know that hardware is supposed to double in power every year, is there any incentive to develop software that doesn't consume more and more power? I remember several limitations that were imposed on games due to hardware in the past, but without those limits, are we developing worse and worse quality software? This is genuinely a question, I don't know how we stack up to the greybeards, but I am willing to bet that we hardly can. 1 comments on Hacker News.
In a world where we know that hardware is supposed to double in power every year, is there any incentive to develop software that doesn't consume more and more power? I remember several limitations that were imposed on games due to hardware in the past, but without those limits, are we developing worse and worse quality software? This is genuinely a question, I don't know how we stack up to the greybeards, but I am willing to bet that we hardly can.
In a world where we know that hardware is supposed to double in power every year, is there any incentive to develop software that doesn't consume more and more power? I remember several limitations that were imposed on games due to hardware in the past, but without those limits, are we developing worse and worse quality software? This is genuinely a question, I don't know how we stack up to the greybeards, but I am willing to bet that we hardly can. 1 comments on Hacker News.
In a world where we know that hardware is supposed to double in power every year, is there any incentive to develop software that doesn't consume more and more power? I remember several limitations that were imposed on games due to hardware in the past, but without those limits, are we developing worse and worse quality software? This is genuinely a question, I don't know how we stack up to the greybeards, but I am willing to bet that we hardly can.
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