Moore's Law for LabVIEW

[Andrey_Dmitriev]

Colleagues,

You know probably Moore's original statement:

"...that transistor counts had doubled every year..." (first published in Electronics Magazine, 19 April 1965).

I would like to introduce the similar law for LabVIEW:

The size of the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine had doubled every odd LabVIEW release and quadrupled every even LabVIEW release.

Look here: there are the sizes of all released LabVIEW Run-Time Engines (installers) since 5.1:

(installer date may not equal to release date)

Now the only major releases:

As you can see above - the sizes for migration from ver 6.0 to 7.0 and 8.0->9.0 was doubled (10MB->20 MB and 80MB->160 MB) and the sizes for 5.1->6.0 and 7.0->8.0 was increased with factor x4: 2,5 MB->10 MB and 20MB -> 80 MB. Logically expected the same rule for 9.0->10.0

Now, follow the law - the estimated size of LabVIEW Run-Time 10.0 (2010) will be 161 * 4 = ~650 MB (hopefully will fit to the single CD).

Isn't?

Andrey.

[PhillipBrooks]

Ah... LabVIEW 7.0 keeps looking better and better...

[muks]

I will say7.1 was the best

[altenbach]

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