25 Oct
2011
25 Oct
'11
4:23 p.m.
On 25 Oct 2011 at 10:50, Mouse wrote:
> "The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its
> continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the
> computer hardware industry." - Henry Petroski
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I remember an Intel engineer summarizing this more
succinctly
somewhat like this:
"We work hard to build chips with amazing performance and the
software people piss it all away."
Hence my corollary to Moore's Law:
. . . and the software will double its inefficiencies to compensate.