Slow software

[Kent Sharkey]

Ink and Switch[^]:

Hardware gets faster, but software still feels slow. What gives?

"Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container"

[Joe Woodbury]

Kent Sharkey wrote:

Hardware gets faster, but software still feels slow. What gives?

Crappy programming languages.

[Rick York]

Joe Woodbury wrote:

Crappy programming languages.

That are often interpreted resulting in execution that is usually much slower than native compilation.