Software Disenchantment

Re:Software Disenchantment by jmercouris on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @02:55PM (#27041401)

I think we should come up with a corresponding law of software development 'as computers become more powerful, more of those extra cycles will be wasted'.

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Re:Software Disenchantment by Aeronwen on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @03:14PM (#27041659)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law

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Re:Software Disenchantment by jmercouris on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @05:45PM (#27043283)

Perfect :-) thanks!

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Re:Software Disenchantment by jmercouris on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @02:56PM (#27041421)

Now that I think about it, perhaps it is like traffic. When they add more roads, the amount of traffic stays the same. There is a certain tolerance/threshold we can endure for traffic.

In this same way, we can tolerate a certain amount of lagginess in our computers. The hardware will get faster and faster, but the relative interface performance will remain the same.

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