> So okay, all the artifacts take much more resources but even after consuming 100 times more compute resources why software is still excruciatingly slow? It's

> So okay, all the artifacts take much more resources but even after consuming 100 times more compute resources why software is still excruciatingly slow? It's not? Software used to be way, way slower. I had a 386. I experienced things like seeing the screen redraw, from top to bottom in games running at the amazing quality of 320x200x8 bits. I've waited hours for a kernel build. I've waited many seconds for a floppy drive to go chunk-kachunk while saving a couple pages of Word document. I've waited minutes for a webpage to download. I remember the times when file indexing completely tanked framerates. Today all of that is pretty much instant.