Your argument sounds like Stockholm-syndrome. Its not so much "faster" as it is latency. Any time the feedback between idea and execution starts to lag, it beco

Your argument sounds like Stockholm-syndrome. Its not so much "faster" as it is latency. Any time the feedback between idea and execution starts to lag, it becomes painful. Also, performance is important in the same sense that efficiency is important. If you can run the same logic with half the processing power you'll be able to either run more processes or shrink the necessary processor size. Software may be a heavenly world of abstraction, but in the end the hardware has to pay for our sins.