Comment by vacuity

Computer hardware is very fast now, so why does my computer lag noticeably on OS and browser operations? A facetious question, and perhaps it's not remotely a dealbreaker, but I expect better and would expect the same of my own software. I agree with GGP that too many people seem to take "premature optimization is the root of all evil" as "don't optimize until it's too late and then painstakingly get diminishing returns". There is a comfortable middle ground of the optimizing-delivering tradeoff that I think is wildly missed.