Comments on: Page’s Law: Why PCs Get Slower, Not Faster

By: Condensed Knowledge - May 31, 2009 - Lists - Raoul Pop

Condensed Knowledge - May 31, 2009 - Lists - Raoul Pop — Sun, 31 May 2009 09:30:37 +0000

[...] Page’s Law: Why PCs Get Slower, Not Faster [...]

By: moshez

moshez — Sun, 31 May 2009 09:10:09 +0000

A common fallacy, I'm afraid. The reason software is "slow" is because it does things people need, but could not afford earlier.

By: gargravarr

gargravarr — Sun, 31 May 2009 00:09:44 +0000

I bought a Vic-20 in 1982 as a 12 year old. I joked to someone the other day that my iMac probably doesn’t have any files on it as small as 3.5k. Feature creep is not just a character in a scary movie. Just because you can put in a feature doesn’t make it useful if it slows your work down.

By: Perhaps When a Talking Head Says It They Will Believe ~ Revelations From An Unwashed Brain

Sat, 30 May 2009 04:49:27 +0000

[...] McCracken in Technologizer says – Page’s Law is painfully true. It helps to explain why 2001-era PCs which ran Windows XP [...]

By: Carlos Oliveira

Carlos Oliveira — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:25:17 +0000

You are right that developers don’t care too much about performance nowadays. However, this has the advantage that we are more free to reuse software written by other people, and to employ “slow” techniques such as garbage collection, and dynamic types.

By: Scott Rosenberg

Scott Rosenberg — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:41:52 +0000

Page’s Law is indeed true — but it is not Page’s. Nicklaus Wirth can rightly claim this one. Wirth’s Law said, “Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.”