This has always bothered me as an embedded C developer. We always strive to squeeze the last drop of performance out of a 32MHz processor in order to reduce ba

This has always bothered me as an embedded C developer. We always strive to squeeze the last drop of performance out of a 32MHz processor in order to reduce battery consumption. Yet in the PC space, CPU manufacturers are pushing the limits of physics to produce faster, more efficient CPUs, and yet it's being wasted to dozens of layers of abstraction and interpretation. Software should be absolutely blazing fast by now, and yet computers feel just as sluggish as they did years ago (ignoring the boost from SSDs)