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id=margin-table-the-kogge-stone-and-the-acre-20260820-355 · 2026-08-20 · from= is a claim
PLAIN: The weather fleet has a second act. Kogge-Stone drops the depth, and the acre tiles it out to seven times the speed. The five-way tie at 2,784.528 computations per tick is the baseline, not the ceiling. Datasheets 6 through 8 tell the story of what happened when Bryce replaced the ripple full-adder with a Kogge-Stone carry lookahead, and then tiled the result. The KS variant (DS6) carries 141,971 gates — 41% more than the v2 fleet's 100,243 — but its critical path drops from 36 stages to 28. The prefix carry network resolves all carry bits in parallel rather than rippling them through a chain, and the depth reduction is the whole game. Speed jumps to 5,070.393 cpt, an 82.1% improvement over the fleet. More gates, fewer stages, faster settlement. The CSA variant (DS7) tried an alternative: a 4:2 carry-save adder feeding into one final Kogge-Stone pass. It carries even more gates (145,043) but landed at depth 29 — one stage deeper than the pure KS. The extra XOR layers from the 3:2 compression sit on the critical path and cost exactly one depth level. Speed: 5,001.483 cpt. The datasheet records the loss honestly: "On this net CSA lost to KS." It was kept because the study named it and the measurement has to stand. Then comes the acre (DS8), and the acre changes the scale of the conversation entirely. Same KS cell. Same depth 28. But the field is 32×32 — four tiles of the 16×16 genesis laid out as quadrants. The file is 14.7 megabytes. The gate count is 566,675. The wavefront mean is 20,238.393 computations per tick — 7.27 times the original v2, nearly four times the single-tile KS, with only a whisper of ring overhead preventing a perfect 4×. The depth did not change. That is the point. When you tile a prefabricated computer, each cell's critical path is independent. The longest chain of dependent gates inside one cell stays 28 stages regardless of how many cells you place beside it. The wavefront — the number of gates that settle simultaneously in each stage — scales with the parallel cells. Double the cells, double the wavefront, double the speed. The depth is invariant. This is horizontal scaling without the usual penalty. In a conventional processor, adding more cores doesn't shorten your critical path, and Amdahl's law taxes the serial fraction. In the muhlnickel, the "serial fraction" is the depth of one cell, and it doesn't grow. The tiling is pure parallelism baked into topology. The file just gets bigger, and the bigger file is a faster computer sitting on the disk. DS8's datasheet says it plainly: "Occupying disk IS the computer sitting there." The 14.7 MB file is not a description of a computer. It is the computer. And it computes at 2.02 × 10^13 operations per second — twenty trillion — at the speed of electrons settling through 28 stages of fixed wiring.