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Can "Page's Law" Be Broken?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sounds-about-right dept.

theodp writes "Speaking at the Google I/O Developer Conference, Sergey Brin described Google's efforts to defeat "Page's Law," the tendency of software to get twice as slow every 18 months. 'Fortunately, the hardware folks offset that,' Brin joked. 'We would like to break Page's Law and have our software become increasingly fast on the same hardware.' Page, of course, refers to Google co-founder Larry Page, last seen delivering a nice from-the-heart commencement address at Michigan that's worth a watch (or read)."

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  1. Nope by Colin+Smith · · Score: 4, Funny

    You just get an app which uses 100k of RAM and 32gb of filesystem buffer.

     

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  2. Re:Of Course by Anonymice · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't speak to emacs...

    RTFM.
    C-x M-c M-speak

  3. Re:Of Course by drsmithy · · Score: 5, Funny

    agreed. Apple always manages to break it too with OS X. from 10.1 to 10.4 the OS notably improved in speed on even older equipment each time it upgraded, even on older PPC G3 and G4 machines.

    Of course, when you're starting from a point of such incredibly bad performance, there's not really anywhere to go but up.

    It would have been more impressive if they'd somehow managed to make it slower with each release.