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> A big part of software engineering is to engineer the logic to get the correct result as fast as possible.* Engineering is all about working within a set of
by bostik 9y ago
> A big part of software engineering is to engineer the logic to get the correct result as fast as possible.*
Engineering is all about working within a set of constraints. Things that are easier and/or cheaper to manufacture, have clearly been engineered that way.
It can't be a coincidence that we consider CPU time and memory footprint "costs".
- skookumchuck 9y agoWe consider them costs because they are. If you can execute code on your server farm 1% faster, you can save millions of dollars in server costs. Hence software engineers who work on server farm code tend to get paid very well.