Only a tiny minority of professional programmers have a clear picture in their minds of how fast modern computers are. 99.9% have next to no idea. How does this affect software that is even conceived? (Ignoring, for a moment, what is actually built, which we know is very slow).
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow
why is speed of software, rather than power and memory consumption, always what people think we need to optimize for?
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Replying to @prolixpost
I guarantee you that these slower programs are also using more power and consuming more memory.
3:14 PM - 25 Jul 2019
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