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I am in full agreement with you here, however, I got in before the obligatory ‘developer time is worth more than CPU time’ post which is often the response to c

I am in full agreement with you here, however, I got in before the obligatory ‘developer time is worth more than CPU time’ post which is often the response to comments like yours. It seems to be the most frequent dismissive comment anytime performance comes up on HN. I find this analogous to the ‘pre-mature optimization is the root of all evil’ comment that seems to be the most popular on StackOverflow. As a note, I’m not too interested in MLIR because I have not seen it applied to any of the areas that interest/effect me. But I guess I will remain slightly optimistic about the possibilities.

Gibbon1 7y ago
I remember seeing someones rough estimates about effort required to automate a task vs the time saved by not having to manually perform it. Their claim was automation wins a lot more than you would think. Consider you have 4 workers using your software. Doesn't take much of them having to wait around for your slow ass software before you need 5 workers.
- lioeters 7y ago
  Here's the reference: Is It Worth the Time? https://xkcd.com/1205/ https://xkcd.com/1205/