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It's really just a generalization of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law "Work expands so as to fill

• ChuckMcM 15y ago
  I think this is a large part of it. When you look at something like Compiz and you say "well that is nice and cool and all but its not really contributing to the work being done." Its eye candy that can be done because we have a GPU sitting there otherwise idle. There is a story, probably apocryphal at this point, that a long time ago in what seems like a different universe, an engineer working on the Xerox Star system, was looking into why it was bogging down. It was reported there were nearly 800 subroutine calls between a key stroke and a letter was rendered on the screen. They managed to cut that number in half and the performance improved by a third. Mostly it was abstractions, People always find uses for every available CPU cycle, as predicted, now we're entering a time when you will need to optimize something to get more cycles.