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The problem of software feeling slow even though hardware gets faster is not limited to web applications. Wirth's law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_la
by mwcampbell 12y ago
The problem of software feeling slow even though hardware gets faster is not limited to web applications. Wirth's law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law) precedes the widespread use of the Web as an application platform. Also, Stanislav Datskovskiy's rant "Going Nowhere Really Fast" (http://www.loper-os.org/?p=300 http://www.loper-os.org/?p=300) doesn't even mention the browser. So the web stack is not the root of the problem.
- hsitz 12y agoYes, web layer right now just happens to be the one people notice slowing things down. Go back to early 90's and you will find lots of complaints about how moving to Windows and GUI was backwards step from character-mode DOS because of the extra layers Windows added, the sluggish UI response, general slowness of Windows apps, and increased complexity and difficulty of developing for Windows. Of course, despite this, there were lots of obvious advantages of moving to Windows from DOS. Eventually the slowdown added by Windows abstractions became pretty much a non-issue, shortly before the move to web development gained critical mass and started the cycle all over again.