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That would mean performence more then doubled on a yearly basis.

How do you figure? They were released 30+ years apart. 2^30 would be a billion times faster. Instead it's something under 19 doublings, nowhere close to doubling every year for 37 years.



I think it's just the case of random boomer think 1980 was 20 years ago :)


I make that mistake and I'm only a boomer for the derogatory gen-z definition that includes anyone older than 25.


Isn’t Moore’s law a doubling (of density) every two years?


There are a lot of different ways to state it (often including constraints like price), in part because it's not really a 'law'. But the main thing is, 500k times performance does not represent 'more than doubling' performance on a yearly basis as this comment claims.


BTW it's a doubling every 1.54 years


For the numbers in that pic, it would be every 2-ish, which makes me wonder if the GP just flipped a reciprocal somewhere.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=37+%2F+log+base+2+%284...




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