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There must be some kind of law, like Guido's law or something, that the more hardware improves, the slower and worse software becomes, so that due to poor softw
by Safety1stClyde 10y ago
There must be some kind of law, like Guido's law or something, that the more hardware improves, the slower and worse software becomes, so that due to poor software, one ends up with exactly the same speed as one had in the 1980s.
- rezaprima 10y agoI think it's "Andy [Grove] gives, Bill [Gates] takes away"
- hackuser 10y agoAFAIK, something similar applies to road infrastructure, at least sometimes: There are rush hour traffic jams on the highway so the government adds lanes. As a result, more people move homes and offices to locations near the highway and the traffic delays remain the same. Perhaps it tells us something about what users really want: More (functionality on websites / homes in the suburbs) as long as it doesn't increase latency beyond (3 seconds / 45 minutes).
- someguydave 10y agoOne reason: the hardware has "improved" in ways that are not directly helpful for software. Executing CPU instructions more quickly doesn't help if you can't improve memory speed. Having more cores doesn't help if you can't utilize them efficiently in your problem. But I agree with the meat of your point: modern software sucks and is getting worse.