Okay, but then why optimize at all? Computers are fast, why not just run HTTP everywhere? What’s the point of the article?

My Mac mini runs at three whole billion clock cycles per second. If we’re going to depend on hardware to make our argument, we’re all basically running supercomputers. And yet everything is slow, and my tools lag for no reason, the web in general is slow. Which is all fine, but I thought computers were supposed to be fast? Somehow we’ve arrived at a point where on the one hand, computers are supposed to be fast enough to support these huge skyscrapers of abstraction, but on the other hand… the result is mind blowingly slow.