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Jeffrey Creem:

# But until I can

# Boot my OS in less than 3 seconds.
# Launch any application at random in the sub 100msec range
# Ecode and burn a 2 hour MPEG DVD in 3-4 seconds.
# Perform complicated embedded DSP algorithms in 10% of a CPU running on 100
# Mwatts

# I am not going to believe it.

# Everything (and yes I mean everything) still runs slower
# than I'd like.

It's Parkinson's law applied to computers:
"Work expands so as to fill the time available
for its completion" becomes something like "Software
effort expands so as to fill the CPU cycles available
for its completion, in a given time".
In other words, there is an apparent competition between
progress in hardware and bloat in software resulting to
about the same time for equivalent jobs. Maybe it's just that
slower software helps selling faster hardware...
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