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The statement was stating an absolute. Algorithmic complaxity matters more than the speed of the computing hardware. Obviously, more power means you can compute more, but not everything.


That's a very uncharitable reading of what I wrote. The topic of the conversation was GPU performance vs CPU performance. Despite being less flexible, the sheer quantity of execution units more than makes up for it.

But no, I suppose its more likely I was really saying GPUs aren't bounded by the limits of the universe.


The context is Primecoin and ability to find primes. Prime factorization is related to that, and it would be obvious to read your statement in absolut for that context and it's relation. At least I did.




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