Speed improvement in memory, disk, and CPU...
If I were to attempt the rather ambitious task of improving the speed of today's PCs, I'd look toward optimizing Windows. Most people agree that the burden Windows places on PC hardware is considerable, and that in their haste to bring software to market, many firms do not take time to optimize the code they deliver. This leaves consumers running code which causes their machines to perform quite a bit of needless work. One approach to reducing this waste would be to re-write the most wasteful routines. A suite of files, each replacing some chunk of inefficient code would bring improvements to the CPU, disk, and memory performance.
The difficulty lies in creating this code. As far as I know, parts of Windows would need reverse engineering, a practice which I think is discouraged by Microsoft. Even if this approach was used, it would require considerable time and effort from very talented programmers. Trouble is, those talented programmers could most likely be more profitably employed elsewhere.
Just my thoughts.
Cheers,PW. |
