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by mabbo
2148 days ago
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Software speed is a usability feature, and usability is a subset of economic value. It turns out, people are perfectly happy to put up with slightly slower software for all of the other benefits we get from modern software: rapid development, rapid deployability, ease of code comprehension, and more. When users complain about slow software enough to buy a different product (in whatever variation of 'buy' that may be) then it becomes a high priority thing to fix. Software today is precisely as fast as it needs to be- and no more, typically. To me, this article is just the software engineer's version of Grandpa complaining that things were better in the old days- he's ignoring the reasons why things changed. |
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I don't think this is true. I think this is more of a 'boiling frog' situation. Increase the temperature one degree at a time and it won't jump out of the pot.
Every individual piece of software slowly eating up more resources is something the user barely notices or doesn't even attribute to the software in question, but give it a few years and everything grinds to a halt, and people very much dislike this, hence the infamous 'Windows rot' that everyone has suffered from at one point of their lives.