Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
I don't know, I can compile code perceptually instantly and get optimizations which perceptually instant compilers didn't do in 1983. I know that Turbo Pascal was very fast when it came to compiling Pascal, and I certainly appreciate the effort which went into making that happen, but Turbo Pascal didn't turn string handling code into SIMD operations after turning a recursive function into an unrolled loop.<p>Partly, this was due to the fact the IBM PC did not have SIMD operations in 1983, but the rest is because modern compilers run complex optimization passes in tiny fractions of a second.<p>Also, I'd like to see this person say that operations on computers were perceptually instant while logged into a PDP-11/70 or (let's be a tad generous) a VAX-11/780 with a half-dozen other people all trying to use it at the same time. Yes, faster computers existed in 1983. Didn't mean the likes of you got to use them.