hardware is getting faster
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It is a fact that the advance in semiconductor technology has pushed computer hardwares to be thousands times faster than it used to be.
With respect to this fact, 2 kinds of opinions are raised:
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speed of program
Execution time of program is an important metric of program(and programming language), both in CPU cycles and real time.
- In general, there is a trend of hardware is getting faster, which twin exists another trend of slower software(in CPU cycle and memory usage, not necessarily feel slower), which have raised 2 opinions:
- , thinking that we are enabled to make slower software that are easier to use
- software is getting fatter just because food are there, thinking some software developers are letting themselves off and make sloppy software