I’m not sure I knew Wirth’s Law before;
> Wirth's law is an adage on computer performance which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster.
Apparently this trend was noticed in the 80’s
Can’t help but apply it to the web. Connection speeds are generally trending up, but some parts of the web feel slower than ever
@tosbourn this is particularly damaging given the ever-widening gulf in performance between those with the latest high-end devices on fast connections and those on under-powered devices with unreliable, high-latency, low-bandwidth connections.
The software is usually built by the former and if software expands to consume the available resources of devices with a wealth of resources, those without don't stand a chance.
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