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>20-30% Your total guess is orders of magnitude off. Most software today is in the ballpark of 10,000x slower than it should be.

• Narishma 3y ago
  That's not what they're saying. They're talking about things that couldn't be done due to performance issues but are now possible thanks to improved hardware.
  • wredue 3y ago
    Software developers rarely question the hardware they are developing on/for. Unless you were developing in the pentium and earlier era, it has almost definitely not been true for you that “the hardware is not capable of running this idea” (ignore certain obvious high performance sectors).
    • marginalia_nu 3y ago
      Dunno, there are some pretty large exceptions to that. The AI boom is almost entirely a thing due to advancements in hardware. You simply couldn't build ChatGPT with 2014 hardware.
  • Ntrails 3y ago
    10 years ago we designed a system to approximate a chunk of maths we did not have time to do every second, too slow. If you started from scratch you'd never even consider doing anything other than the original obvious "correct" maths. Approximation be damned.