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And the highest latency was a Symbolics Lisp machine from 1986. It's not the transistor count, it's the depth of the abstraction stack.

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In particular it's the depth of the abstraction stack divided by transistor count. Wirth's Law: "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law

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