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Wirth's law in computing was made popular by Niklaus Wirth in 1995.[1] There are two versions and it is unclear which was the original form, or where the belief actually originated. According to Wirth's law:
- Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster. Which Wirth attributed to Martin Reiser.[2]
or
- Software is decelerating faster than hardware is accelerating.[citation needed]
Computer hardware has become faster over time, and some of that development is quantified by Moore's law; Wirth's law points out that this does not imply that work is actually getting done faster.
An example can be found with the transition to and emergence of 64-bit architectures and multi-core CPUs for which applications and operating systems have been attributed as being complex and financially intensive to design and providing little benefit to current mainstream markets.[citation needed]
See also
References
- ^ Philip E. Ross. "5 Commandments". IEEE Spectrum, http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/print/3752.
- ^ Niklaus Wirth (February 1995). "A Plea for Lean Software". Computer 28 (2): pp. 64–68. doi:, http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/2.348001. Retrieved on 13 January 2007.
- The School of Niklaus Wirth: The Art of Simplicity by László Böszörményi, Jürg Gutknecht, and Gustav Pomberger (Editors), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2000, ISBN 1-55860-723-4.
