>or very performance-driven The vast majority software is performance driven, because the vast majority of software has end users who have better things to do

>or very performance-driven The vast majority software is performance driven, because the vast majority of software has end users who have better things to do with their lives than wait for software to do what it should. But this point is lost on a large percentage of the people who build software. And those who do understand the point also often push performance down the priority stack because writing fast software is hard.