Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again
by cookiecaper on Monday November 13, 2017 @05:33PM
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Jevon's Paradox [0] is probably more appropriate.
As resources become more plentiful (available performance-units, whether delivered through faster software or faster hardware), demand counter-intuitively increase, in part because the cheaper per-unit price makes people feel they can use the resource more freely.
This phenomenon describes why no matter how fast our computers get, it's unlikely that they will ever be "fast enough".
Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again
by wpietri on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @12:50AM
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Both are definitely relevant, but since you insist on ranking them, the Red Queen phenomenon is more relevant to his question, which is about how Firefox is portraying themselves in the marketplace, which is a competitive environment.
As resources become more plentiful (available performance-units, whether delivered through faster software or faster hardware), demand counter-intuitively increase, in part because the cheaper per-unit price makes people feel they can use the resource more freely.
This phenomenon describes why no matter how fast our computers get, it's unlikely that they will ever be "fast enough".
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox