Why do computers start to slow down over time?
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Software moves on. Day 1: ‘Add 1+1’. Day 2000: ‘Add 1+1, but do it with a liquid glowing background and have the answer fly in on a rendered flying carpet that accurately accounts for ambient air pressure and wind effects. Don’t forget accurately rendering each of the tassles’.
Also, software gets bigger / storage gets slower and fragmented. Day 1: ‘Move this brick over here’. Day 2000: ‘Move this atlas stone, the first of 300 that also need to be moved, from here to here; and by now someone has left a mess in the pit so you have to pick your way more carefully across the ground to not disturb anything. Also, in some places the ground is actually a thinly covered abyss, so if it falls through, leave a flag there, go get an identical stone and put it someplace else.’
More stuff is happening at once as all the applications (that have background operations) you’ve installed over time add up. As above, but ‘And also there are 15 other people moving through the same tunnel to get to the pit. Wait in line.’
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