Moore’s Law is over, ushering in a golden age for computer architecture, says RISC pioneer
David Patterson—University of California professor, Google engineer, and RISC pioneer—says there’s no better time than now to be a computer architect.
Some highlights
"As an example on the software side, Patterson indicated that rewriting Python into C gets you a 50x speedup in performance. Add in various optimization techniques and the speedup increases dramatically. It wouldn’t be too much of a stretch, he indicated, “to make an improvement of a factor of 1,000 in Python.”"
https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/hardware/david-patterson-says-its-time-for-new-computer-architectures-and-software-languages
David Patterson—University of California professor, Google engineer, and RISC pioneer—says there’s no better time than now to be a computer architect.
Some highlights
"As an example on the software side, Patterson indicated that rewriting Python into C gets you a 50x speedup in performance. Add in various optimization techniques and the speedup increases dramatically. It wouldn’t be too much of a stretch, he indicated, “to make an improvement of a factor of 1,000 in Python.”"
https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/hardware/david-patterson-says-its-time-for-new-computer-architectures-and-software-languages
