I'm with you, and I had a similar reaction. But on thinking about it, I think he was mostly arguing about how to frame the performance improvement. See my comme

I'm with you, and I had a similar reaction. But on thinking about it, I think he was mostly arguing about how to frame the performance improvement. See my comment elsewhere in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13696514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13696514