Why Can't we Make Simulators Faster?

Why Can't we Make Simulators Faster?

Behavior

Register

Gate

Switch

Electrical

Description Level

Von-Neumann

Computer

Deals with 1's and 0's,

32-bit words, floating-point

numbers

"Common Denominator"

Symbolic

Compiler

Programming Language

(C, Ada, ...)

Optimized Data-Structures

and Codes

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