English Explanatory Dictionary

Wirth's law

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. The observation that, over time, software gets slower more rapidly than hardware gets faster.

Word forms

Wirth's law

Etymology

Named after computer scientist Niklaus Wirth, who discussed it in his 1995 article "A Plea for Lean Software".

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