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Replies seem to be rat-holing on the old well-understood concept that software is slow. Yeah, we know, I have said that many times (and said to ignore that this time). What I am highlighting here is a deeper issue: programmers don't really know what computers are any more.
Speed is one dimension of understanding that's lacking; the picture of speed in programmers' heads is 2-4 orders of magnitude too slow. It's easy to see and understand this, which is why I brought it up. But it's not the only dimension of missing understanding.
To make the speed point again, for an attempt at clarity: Programmers have a picture of their computer, in their minds, that they use to figure out what to do. For 99.9%+, that picture is inaccurate: the imagined computer is 100x-1000x slower than the real computer.
This will result in software that's too slow, obviously. But it also affects what one thinks is possible, what one dares to imagine to do. That is the more important part. Humans are very example-based, and if our examples are wrong, where they lead us will be wrong too.
I think you’re over estimating our ability to truly grasp the « time warp » a modern processor creates.
I completely agree this is a big problem. I've been trying to educate people in my company about the insane speeds of modern computers compared with what we used to use 10 or 20 years ago which the older people in our group do still remember using to do cool things.
2/2 But even these older people have simply forgotten due to the passage of time and the drip, drip of slow software becoming the norm. Perhaps Jon can help come up with real example running on older vs newer hardware and then compare with comparable modern, badly written code.
Original Opera browser! And back on Android 2.something, before it had JIT and used just an interpreter, I used to open so much tabs on the phone with resources to spare, that it still is unbeaten by the likes of Chrome on the desktop.
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