Oh, absolutely. But equally absolutely, there are no absolutes. There’s still plenty of areas where fast code is infinitely more valuable than anything else, in

Oh, absolutely. But equally absolutely, there are no absolutes. There’s still plenty of areas where fast code is infinitely more valuable than anything else, including developer time. As I said, whether you should optimise for the former or the latter strongly depends on your problem at hand and external circumstances. PhD students are cheap, Xeons aren’t.