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I think the current attitude could be summed up better as "Who care's if it's inefficient, yesterday's computers are fast enough!" I think that's true of most

by elihu 8y ago

I think the current attitude could be summed up better as "Who care's if it's inefficient, yesterday's computers are fast enough!" I think that's true of most software, but not all -- there will always be people who care about the best performance, but we shouldn't expect them to be in the majority.

fsloth 8y ago
"there will always be people who care about the best performance, but we shouldn't expect them to be in the majority." Given how machine learning is going to kick in in lots of fields quite soon there will be a lot of real world applications that are not ambivalent about performance (if not else then from energy use point of view). We're going to get Clippy the Clipper 2.0 who can actually do something usefull, and how long he spends figuring out his suggestions and how good they are are likely to be dependent on the available CPU resources and how fast Clippy can think.