🔗 Wirth's Law
🔗 Computing
🔗 Computing/Software
🔗 Computing/Computer science
Wirth's law is an adage on computer performance which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster.
The adage is named after Niklaus Wirth, who discussed it in his 1995 article "A Plea for Lean Software".
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