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> Who'd have thought load times would go backwards after 40 years of Moore's law? "Wirth's law is an adage on computer performance which states that software i
by yesenadam 4y ago
> Who'd have thought load times would go backwards after 40 years of Moore's law?
"Wirth's law is an adage on computer performance which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster. ...Niklaus Wirth...discussed it in his 1995 article "A Plea for Lean Software". ...Wirth attributed the saying to Martin Reiser, who [in 1991] wrote: "The hope is that the progress in hardware will cure all software ills. However, a critical observer may observe that software manages to outgrow hardware in size and sluggishness." Other observers had noted this for some time before; indeed, the trend was becoming obvious as early as 1987."
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