The Advent of Huang's Law

It's been known for some time that Moore's law is dying. Transistor densities don't quite rise at the same rates that they used to [1]. For this reason, the last decade of computer scientists have been trained to not expect their code to get faster without effort. Multicore systems for CPU remain hard to program and often require significant tuning on the part of a skilled programmer to achieve. At the same time, the growth of mobile computing has lead to a Cambrian explosion in the broad applications of deployed programs.