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Originally Posted by MarkyGoldstein  Computers did not double their power in the last 18 months. I don't really believe the old Moores Law anymore. It's not happening anymore, not for the CPU and not for the machine as a whole. Take the latest Mac Pro update: only 1.5 times faster. It is true that the bus, and the PCI bus, is a showstopper for DSP processing too. |
you really want to tell us that a 6 core xeon is only 1,5 times faster than a 2 year old 4 core xeon?
but what you say about drivers, that's totally right, also making plugins for dsps is way harder than programming x86 cpus. If you see UA is making uad plugins quite slowly and they also have excellent programmers.