I want to echo the "linear inefficiency, lol" meme. But more importantly, the costs of inefficiency aren't clock cycles, it's the opportunity cost. It depends

I want to echo the "linear inefficiency, lol" meme. But more importantly, the costs of inefficiency aren't clock cycles, it's the opportunity cost. It depends on the situation, obviously, but inefficiencies can have a very real cost in terms of lost sales or customer dissatisfaction. The ROI will vary on a multitude of variables, but that's my point: these graphs simply don't reveal the complexity of costing models that really come in to play.