I think it goes deeper. There is a certain level of slowness that causes pain to users. When that level is hit, market forces cause attention to software effi

I think it goes deeper. There is a certain level of slowness that causes pain to users. When that level is hit, market forces cause attention to software efficiency. Hardware efficiency just gives more room for software to bloat. The pain level is a human factor and stays the same. So time to adapt Wirths law: Software gets slower >exactly as much< as hardware gets faster