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The claim that “1000x is extraordinary” is demonstrably wrong. You can browse virtually any modern website today and see time to full load of 15+ seconds, foll
by wredue 3y ago
The claim that “1000x is extraordinary” is demonstrably wrong.
You can browse virtually any modern website today and see time to full load of 15+ seconds, followed by time to link load of 7+ seconds.
Back in the days of single core pentiums, 1 second loads were considered severely broken.
Modern software on modern hardware takes tens of seconds to start, whereas software with more features in the pentium days loaded instantly.
1000x is not only not “extraordinary”, it’s actually the demonstrable norm today. You think it’s extraordinary as a result of simply not knowing what computers are capable of.
- RandomBK 3y ago15s vs 1s is only a factor of 15x, not 1000x. The load time of the oft-considered-bloated reddit.com for me is ~5s. Let's use that as a benchmark. If you told me you got reddit.com to load 1000x faster (5ms), then yes that is extraordinary. You're also missing the point of my 'apples-to-apples' caveat. A modern webpage might load slowly, but it also does a lot more than a static html one-pager. Sure you might not consider that to be useful, but those features (tracking, A/B testing, ads, redundancy, CDN, etc.) are useful to someone.