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A comment on Wirth's Law - Software gets slower more quickly than hardware gets faster.

Re:Wirth's Law - Software gets slower more quickly than hard... by fuzzfactor on Sunday October 16, 2016 @11:06AM (#12718907)
Fuzz's Corrollary:

Web experience gets slower more quickly than the software does.

Anecdotal evidence:

Average website loading and/or navigation (speed, success), on average consumer desktops & broadband connections, now seems to underperform the average W9x PC having IE5 and 56K dial-up at the time.

"The faster you go the slower you get there around here" -Fuzzy Berra

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Re:Wirth's Law - Software gets slower more quickly than hard... by pixl97 on Sunday October 16, 2016 @01:37PM (#12719782)
That's because people think it's a great idea to include 10MB of different javascript frameworks that cause the page to rerender itself 15 times as each component loads.

That said, the modern browser isn't slower itself. If you load a page from 10 years ago in edge/chrome it will render almost instantly in most cases.

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