Comment by nikanj
6 years ago
The perceived performance for an average desktop has been pretty stagnant since, I don't know, at least the mid-nineties.
6 years ago
The perceived performance for an average desktop has been pretty stagnant since, I don't know, at least the mid-nineties.
There was a huge perceived improvement when SSDs first appeared.
Softare expands to fill the CPU available.
AKA Wirth’s Law[1]: “Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster.”
[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
Software is being produced faster though.
Didn't cars also follow that pattern?