> It's designed to work at human speed.
It would be great if most applications worked at human speed. Instead we have web applications taking 5 seconds to load what is basically 3 records from a small database.
It would be great if most applications worked at human speed. Instead we have web applications taking 5 seconds to load what is basically 3 records from a small database.
I've often complained out loud with coworkers, while waiting for some horrible webapp to do its thing: "This computer can execute over a billion instructions every second. How many instructions does it take to render some formatted text!?!?"
While throughput is reasonably easy to optimize for, for latency you will havSoftware latency is a hard to optimize target. Throughput is much easiere to fight against each abstraction layer on your code. And that includes layers bolted on your OS and hardware.
Consider also that spending an hour at the DMV for them to update a database entry or two is also human speed.
I want to live in your alternate reality, because in ours anything under 45 seconds is a miracle.