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The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority

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837 points turrini | 2 comments | 13 May 25 10:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.545s | source
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freddie_mercury ◴[13 May 25 12:01 UTC] No.43971929[source]▶
The world DOES run on older hardware.

How new do you think the CPU in your bank ATM or car's ECU is?

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1. PUSH_AX ◴[13 May 25 12:08 UTC] No.43971986[source]▶
Some of it does.

The chips in everyones pockets do a lot of compute and are relatively new though.

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2. freddie_mercury ◴[14 May 25 10:34 UTC] No.43982900[source]▶
I'd be willing to bet that even a brand new iPhone has a surprising number of reasonably old pieces of hardware for Bluetooth, wifi, gyroscope, accelerometer, etc. Not everything in your phone changes as fast as the CPU.