Why? The at law seems to talk about how performance software improvements isn’t relevant while this article talks about how there improvements to Postgres has been significant.
Is it because you view the 15% to be a low number? Because it really, really, isn’t in the context. It’s certainly smaller than the 60% from your linked law especially if you do the whole 15/10 thing, but you really shouldn’t compare Postgres’s performance to hardware increases because they aren’t the same. You would need absolutely massive amounts of hardware improvements to compare to even 1% performance on what is being measured here.
I don’t think the law is as silly as other posters here, but it’s talking about programming language compile times. I wouldn’t compare something as unimportant as that to what is arguably one of the most important things in computer science… considering how much data storage and consumption means to our world.
Is it because you view the 15% to be a low number? Because it really, really, isn’t in the context. It’s certainly smaller than the 60% from your linked law especially if you do the whole 15/10 thing, but you really shouldn’t compare Postgres’s performance to hardware increases because they aren’t the same. You would need absolutely massive amounts of hardware improvements to compare to even 1% performance on what is being measured here.
I don’t think the law is as silly as other posters here, but it’s talking about programming language compile times. I wouldn’t compare something as unimportant as that to what is arguably one of the most important things in computer science… considering how much data storage and consumption means to our world.