> Not sure how the Mill is going to make my ruby webapp go 8 times as fast by issuing 33 instructions instead of 4.
8x speed is not being claimed, 10x power/performance is. That could mean that the app runs at the same speed but the CPU uses 10% of the power. A lot of the power saving probably comes from eliminating many part of modern CPUs like out-of-order circuitry.
Ok, so now that it's 10x power/performance I buy 10 of these things and it still only delivers 5% more webpages.
This kind of mealymouthed microbenchmark crap is exactly what the industry doesn't need, if I have a bunch of code that is pure in order mul/div/add/sub then I put it on a GPU that I already have and it goes gangbusters. The problem is most code chases pointers.
Like I said, great idea, would love to see something that can actually serve webpages 10x as fast or 1/10th the power (and cost similar to today's systems)
I never thought of serving webpages as being CPU-bound. Anyway, to get a 10x speedup, you would have to buy enough of these to use as much power as whatever you're replacing. So if one Mill CPU uses 2% as much power as a Haswell, then you'd have to buy 50 of them to see a 10x performance improvement over the Haswell.
8x speed is not being claimed, 10x power/performance is. That could mean that the app runs at the same speed but the CPU uses 10% of the power. A lot of the power saving probably comes from eliminating many part of modern CPUs like out-of-order circuitry.