Moore's Law
Explore the fundamentals of Moore’s Law and how the slowdown in processor clock speed growth drives the need for multithreaded programming. This lesson helps you understand why concurrency is crucial to fully utilize multicore processors and improve software performance.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Moore’s Law
In this lesson, we’ll cover a high-level overview of Moore’s law to present a final motivation to the reader for writing multi-threaded applications and realize that concurrency is inevitable in the future of software.
Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, observed the number of transistors that can be packed into a given unit of space doubles about every two years and in turn the processing power of computers doubles and the cost ...