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Not only is this false, but completely ignores troves of older hardware existing in people's homes that has to run browsers just as well. The average consumer
by antisthenes 10y ago
Not only is this false, but completely ignores troves of older hardware existing in people's homes that has to run browsers just as well.
The average consumer hardware improves at nowhere near exponential rate (although I guess it depends on the timescale and your willingness to fudge the graph to sparse data points).
- wongarsu 10y ago>completely ignores troves of older hardware existing in people's homes that has to run browsers just as well. The performance has gotten worse for users of a computer from 2006, but it has improved for users of ten-year old computers (since a ten-year old computer in 2012 would have been from 2002). If you assume that a computer is less likely to be used the older it gets (and that this rate is roughly stable), then I am not ignoring older hardware at all. >although I guess it depends on the timescale and your willingness to fudge the graph to sparse data points thus is the nature of all real-live long-term trends. If you pick a sufficiently small timeframe, they never work.
- antisthenes 10y ago> The performance has gotten worse for users of a computer from 2006, but it has improved for users of ten-year old computers I'm not sure I follow that logic.
- wongarsu 10y agoI'm saying that the performance of today's firefox on 2006 hardware is better than the performance of 2012's firefox on 2002 hardware. I consider that to be a better measure than to compare both releases on 2006 hardware.
- ZoF 10y agoThanks, makes much more sense stated this way, I also didn't initially understand your point.
- antisthenes 10y agoThanks for clarifying. If you know anyone willing to donate 2002 era hardware, I'd be willing to do some tests and benchmarks.
- Ericson2314 10y agoI used a 2006 laptop until the beginning of this year and prior to that has a 2000 desktop. Can confirm.