There are still times when we’re running bit data munging stuff overnight (well that’s what compooters are far, isn’t it ??) but I noted a while back that this seems to be much less the case than, say 7 or 8 years ago. Perhaps partly a factor of the changing nature of the work, for sure, but also I think this is one tiny example of increased computing power and better software actually living up to its promise - stuff that took 6 hours of chugging back in the days are now achievable in a third of the time. I think.

Now if only Windows got faster, not slower, with each release…