[MINC-users] CPU Speed

[Andrew Janke]

Anyone elase find it somewhat annoying that things haven't really got
all that faster in CPU's over the last few years. New desktop Xeon
based Dell (Precision 5810) is about 14seconds faster than the 6 year
old i7-950 it replaced. See the last line here:

   https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MINC/Benchmarks

We have more cores available for the same $$ spent, but they aren't
getting much faster. They are however available in laptops. Either
that or a 10% change is not impressive anymore. To put it all in
perspective, a 2mm non-linear fit that used to take Louis about an
hour when he wrote minctracc now takes just under 2 minutes.


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