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Wirth's Law

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Adage going back to the 1990s stating that software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster — software expands to fill all available cycles. Ryan cites it to explain why flagship-device-year-over-year CPU improvements barely keep up with growing JavaScript payloads, while two-thirds of newly purchased devices are equivalent to an iPhone 8 from 2017.

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Used to explain why growing JavaScript payloads overwhelm hardware improvements.

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