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by goatinaboat 2357 days ago
the vast majority of software being developed is simply not performance-critical. It's designed to work at human speed

But what does that even mean? A 3Ghz quad-core can do 12 billion things per second yet I still regularly experience lags keeping up with typing or mouse movements, scrolling webpages, redrawing windows... the actual interactive experience has gotten much worse since the 90s.