Can "Page's Law" Be Broken?

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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Re:Of Course

[Dr_Barnowl]

Heavy is a relative term, of course.

My entire vim install folder : 21MB, including docs

Memory eaten by vim on loading - 8.6MB
Memory eaten by WINWORD.exe - well, it started at 17MB. All I did was let it sit there for a couple of minutes, and close the help browser, now it's eaten 20.3MB. Typed "Hello There", and it goes up to 21.4MB.

Memory consumed by vim for "Hello There" - 76 KB. Winword - 1.1MB

Hell, Word uses as much memory as vim does to load, just to save the file to Hello There.doc