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Re:JavaScript right on the hardware by btilly on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @08:17PM (#6215375)
At the same time, I can't help but grin that we on the CS side find a way to erase all the gains in performance and efficiency as soon as the EE guys make them.

This is a long-noted phenomena. The old saying that summed it up was, "Andy giveth, Bill taketh away." (Referring to Andy Grove of Intel and Bill Gates of Microsoft.)

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Re:JavaScript right on the hardware by knz42 on Thursday August 15, 2013 @04:17AM (#6216688)
In its most extreme form it's also known as "Wirth's law" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
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