Yes, even during my career computers became faster by a factor of ~100 or so, yet computers don't feel much faster if at all. Yes, they're much more _capable_, but usually even less responsive than e.g. in Windows 95 days.
I think just having the intuition of how fast computers can work is what the industry is sorely lacking. I am usually able to achieve very good performance for the stuff that I'm working on, despite the fact that it often requires a stupid amount of computation, just because I know how much a computer can actually do in a given amount of time when it's tuned correctly.
I think just having the intuition of how fast computers can work is what the industry is sorely lacking. I am usually able to achieve very good performance for the stuff that I'm working on, despite the fact that it often requires a stupid amount of computation, just because I know how much a computer can actually do in a given amount of time when it's tuned correctly.