> Why can't I get my computer to perform 1600 times as much concurrent work as back then?
Is that a real question?
> But the amount of work computers do for us hasn't grown proportionally to the amount of computing power.
I don't know about you, but my laptop is much faster than previous machines. Software which used to compile with the Lisp compiler in half an hour, now compiles in a few seconds.
Is that a real question?
> But the amount of work computers do for us hasn't grown proportionally to the amount of computing power.
I don't know about you, but my laptop is much faster than previous machines. Software which used to compile with the Lisp compiler in half an hour, now compiles in a few seconds.