It’s fairly common for programmers to expect that hardware will solve all their problems, and then, when that doesn’t happen, pass the issue onto the user, explaining why the programmer need’t do anything to help the user. A question one might ask is how much performance improvement programmers have given us. There are cases of algorithmic improvements that result in massive speedups but, as we noted above, Discourse, the fastest growing forum software today, seems to have given us an approximately
1000000xslowdown in performance.
