GMP used during 3 and a half years to solve MIT's LCS35

[Hans Åberg]

> On 3 May 2019, at 10:50, Bernard Fabrot <bfabrot at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> from the fact that some instructions are using less cycles than they used
> to. I mean: even after the jump from 32 bit to 64 bit: then some 64 bit
> instructions used less cycles with new CPU generations?

Increasing the clock frequency increases the power consumption faster than linear, though not fully as much as the square I am told. So this forces a shift towards hardware parallelization and less microprogramming. One can see from their estimate of the clock frequency increase that they did not anticipate this technological shift.