From: Rik van Riel (riel@surriel.com)
Date: Sun Dec 04 2005 - 21:13:50 MST
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, H C wrote:
> ...But from a more even-handed standpoint, I somehow find this a very
> improbable scenario.
>
> I mean come on.
Increase your space and time resolution by a factor of
2 and your computational complexity increases by a factor
16.
The increasing gap between processor speeds and memory
speeds is not making things easier, either.
The singularity depends on improved software, not on
improved hardware.
-- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
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