4 ms·
Ask HN: Why is everything still so slow?
Despite greater processing power.
- seren 8y agoIt is similar to Jevons paradox in economy [0]. The cheaper or more efficient something is, the more it is acceptable to waste. On a 8 bit microcontroller, you usually don't waste too much resources because you are really limited, on the other side of the spectrum you now have processing power on demand, so in a way it does not always make much sense to be as efficient as possible. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox