Wirth's Law
Wirth's Law
Software is getting slower more rapidly than computer hardware is becoming faster.
Other names & phrases
Page's law
Every 18 months software becomes twice as slow as it was prior.
Intel & Microsoft
What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away.
Gates's law
The speed of software halves every 18 months.
May's law
Software efficiency halves every 18 months, compensating Moore's law.