Comment by russfink
4 months ago
Until recently, it was always cheaper to forego software architecture optimizations and rely on faster hardware, but now with AI I think this changes that calculus.
4 months ago
Until recently, it was always cheaper to forego software architecture optimizations and rely on faster hardware, but now with AI I think this changes that calculus.
Yes and no. Faster hardware doesn’t solve pathologically broken algorithms :)
Worth's law: Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.
Yep, and its nothing new :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law
*Wirth