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How web bloat impacts users with slow devices (lemmy.ml)

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https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/202404231317
Dan Luu's page with the image : https://danluu.com/slow-device/

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[-] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago

I feel that:

There are two attitudes on display here which I see in a lot of software folks. First, that CPU speed is infinite and one shouldn't worry about CPU optimization. And second, that gigantic speedups from hardware should be expected and the only reason hardware engineers wouldn't achieve them is due to spectacular incompetence, so the slow software should be blamed on hardware engineers, not software engineers.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Hardware keeps getting exponentially faster and software keeps getting exponentially slower. The only people seeming to benefit from better hardware is lazy developers.

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