Even if hardware performance didn't improve as much as it has (and that's a really big if), it would have improved. Software might not have eaten up all the pe

Even if hardware performance didn't improve as much as it has (and that's a really big if), it would have improved. Software might not have eaten up all the performance profits, either, though. Overall, we might have had more clock cycles free and gotten things done more quickly with whatever hardware we had.