On: Fable and the end of the free lunch

[jbstack]

You've selectively quoted the article. The full quote (emphasis added):

"When Moore’s Law slowed in the mid-2000s (specifically, single-threaded performance stagnated), we suddenly had to think about parallelization, architecture, memory locality, etc."

Your link is talking about transistor count. The article is talking about single-threaded performance. Today's CPUs are faster in large part because they have more and more cores.

[selcuka → jbstack]

> Your link is talking about transistor count. The article is talking about single-threaded performance.

But Moore's Law has always been about transistor count, not performance.

[gpjanik → jbstack]

And more cores means what exactly in terms of transistors count?