[ros-dev] The Future of the Desktop

[Adam Kennedy]

Ibrahim Damlaj wrote:
> Good point. However,
> I think that the reason that executables are going to be extinct is 
> because computers are getting faster and faster. 

I'll note we've however now reached a threshold in speed. Last year 
average clock speed went DOWN for the first time ever.

So many of the high yield avenues for pure straight line single threaded 
speed have been exhausted. You'll notice that there is a focus on 
parallelism and power usage at the moment.

While computers will continue to do more things at once, I think that we 
won't be seeing huge advancements in pure speed any more, just 
incremental improvements and big increases in parallelism.

That's not to say there won't be any, just that they will be much slower 
and incremental.

Adam K