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The clocks have not become a hundred-fold faster, I grant you that. But, combined with specialized instructions, the improvement of the instruction pipeline, the growing cache, the multiplication of shadow registers, the addition of hyperthreading, and the increasing number of cores, we probably do have a hundred time more computing power in a modern laptop.


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