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History has shown that with time these numbers shrink, there will come a time when the difference is between two very small numbers and that won't be a factor.
by dr42 14y ago
History has shown that with time these numbers shrink, there will come a time when the difference is between two very small numbers and that won't be a factor. It almost is. A couple of years. 4G LTE for example.
- lucperkins 14y agoYou could be right about these numbers becoming meaningless. But in the meantime, there is a noticeable difference, and that can mean life or death in the jam-packed web dev market that we see today. If cramming as much application logic as possible into the front side continues to shave off milliseconds or even seconds in some cases, then I think that trend will continue. That said, I hope you're right. A world in which front vs. back end didn't matter with respect to time would be one in which developers were free to reveal far less on the client side, and that would be a victory indeed!
- daeken 14y agoThe issue in this case isn't (primarily) bandwidth, it's latency. Cell connections have terrible latency, universally, and there are a lot of problems to solve before that stops being true.