Personal Crusade!
You have highlighted one of my bugbears. Why is it that PC's efficiency have not kept pace with Moore,s law. The only answer I can come up with is that it allows the developer to produce software more rapidly to present to the market place, hence increase his/her profits by beating their competitors, and who could blame them, after all they are in business!
As the cost of processing power due to Moore's law is offsetting this coding inefficiency, (at this moment), then no one notices or cares that the same tasks could have been performed on lower powered equipment, (as the overall combined cost of software/equipment might of been more).
However, as I come from an aerospace background, it does really annoy me of the inefficiencies that the market forces have forced upon the developer to produce his "bloated lazy code" and the tantalizing possibility of equally capable smaller & energy efficient equipment is denied,
It has to be stated that the commercial & the environment I work in demand different limits to be met, which for us also demands time consuming rigorous debugging, testing before release & flight that can take months (years), so I can not be too harshly critical, but hopefully offered a new perspective of what could be.
With the advent of smaller form formats such as the Tablets & Ultrabooks, it is a shame that the opportunity to produce efficient code & comparatively outstandingly powerful, highly portable & long life productive machines is again being lost to market forces. Does it really take a war (armed conflict, not commercial) to achieve this?
Apple with its unique position to produce both software & specify design to its sub contractors is in a prime place to do this, if the will was there. One thinks back to the genesis of Apple, their goals & first products, then look to their present positions which appears to be profit oriented and one is saddened at what might have been & has been achieved. This betrayal, I believe is what makes every one angry at Apple.
I would like thank all here for their contribution to this constructive discussion, especially to both Vulpinemac, jscott69 for their interesting, kind & informed opinions.
