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Re:How to Analyze Billions of Records per Second on a Single... by majewsky on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @04:18AM (#17496229)
> There is an axiom that software gets bigger, for no particularly good reason, for at least 40 years.

Sounds like a computer variant of Parkinson's law: "Work expands to fill the time available for its completion."

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Re:How to Analyze Billions of Records per Second on a Single... by mmt on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @03:57PM (#17501524)
Close, but not quite, since what's available (space in the specific example) isn't being filled.

Alternatively, with the complaint that desktop software feels more sluggish on a modern computer than contemporaneous software did on much older hardware suggests that something is even being overfilled.

My intuition says there's a different phenomenon of psychology at work here.

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