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And once you understand how fast modern computers are, you realize how absurd it is when software is still slow. How is it that Microsoft Teams takes 15 seconds to load? How many billions of calculations does it take to put a list of names on the screen?

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Although it can be laziness/ incompetence wasting cycles, sometimes the problem is that only the CPU got so much faster, and only in certain ways.

If Teams talks to a remote server, doesn't matter how fast your CPU is, it takes time for the question to get to the server, time to get back, that's some time regardless. Now yes, maybe they write code which goes

Hi! / Yes? / I'm a Teams client / That's nice / And you? / I'm the Teams server, what username? / SamBankmanFried / OK, and password? / Hunter2 / OK, you're logged in SamBankmanFried / OK do I have new #catpics ? / Nope / How about #emergency ? / Nope / How about #general ? / Yes, six messages ...

And that's a lot of round trips whereas they could have done:

Hi, I'm a Teams client, hopefully you're a Teams server / Yes, I'm the Teams server, what username & password ? / SamBankmanFried password Hunter2, also summarise my new stuff / Hello SamBankmanFried, you have six #general messages ...

Which is far fewer round trips.

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