Moore's Law
Discover how Moore's Law explains the growth limits of processor speeds and why modern software must adopt multi-threading to utilize multicore processors. This lesson clarifies the shift in CPU performance trends and motivates the need for concurrency in programming.
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 ...