Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
Supercomputing

New State of Matter Could Extend Moore's Law 329

rennerik writes "Scientists at McGill University in Montreal say they've discovered a new state of matter that could help extend Moore's Law and allow for the fabrication of more tightly packed transistors, or a new kind of transistor altogether. The researchers call the new state of matter 'a quasi-three-dimensional electron crystal.' It was discovered using a device cooled to a temperature about 100 times colder than intergalactic space, following the application of the most powerful continuous magnetic field on Earth."

Comment Re:The language does matter (Score 2, Insightful) 1270

Certainly the language affects implementation. However, the only relevant speed comparisons are between implementations of a language. Saying that language requirements/features will have an effect on performance is misleading.

For example, good JIT compilers for Java are able to eliminate many bounds checks for arrays. Consider something like:
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
A[i] = ...
}
If the array A is of size >= 10, the compiler can easily prove the checks unnecessary, and the generated code will not contain bounds checks.

Slashdot Top Deals

10 to the minus 6th power mouthwashes = 1 Microscope

Working...