Where Have All The Cycles Gone?

Mai writes "Computers are getting faster all the time, or so they tell us. But, in fact, the user experience of performance hasn't improved much over the past 15 years. This article takes a look at where all the precious processor time and memory are going."

Comments

So then why are modern distro's so slow?

[pi314]

Now we know why Windows is so slow, but why are modern distro's so slow?

Re:Just look at the size of a word document today

[lahvak]

How is "landscape" a printer setting? Yes, it applies to printing, but also to creating a postscript or pdf version of the file. I would call it "page formating" rather than "printer setting". It has nothing to do with an actual printer. And, in TeX, it takes about 9 bytes to specify you want to format the whole document in landscape, and perhaps a little bit more if you need individual landscape pages in otherwise portrait oriented document.