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>Wirth's law is a computing adage made popular by Niklaus Wirth in 1995.[1][2] It states that "software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes fas
by nawitus 13y ago
>Wirth's law is a computing adage made popular by Niklaus Wirth in 1995.[1][2] It states that "software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster." - Wikipedia
There's also a related "law": “What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away.”
- scott_karana 13y agoBill clearly seems to be Bill Gates, but who is Andy? I would have expected "Gordon Moore", or... :-)
- jaredsohn 13y agoAndy Grove was CEO of Intel
- burke 13y ago> "software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster." I used to think this was true. For me, the perceived inflection point where perceived speed of software started improving was somewhere around 2008. This may be because I switched to a mac in 2006 and the releases around that era had a big performance focus.