It's especially powerful when you have someone with a deep knowledge of both hardware and software who can maximally exploit the performance of the hardware tak

It's especially powerful when you have someone with a deep knowledge of both hardware and software who can maximally exploit the performance of the hardware taking into account CPU caches, vectorization, etc. that most application programmers don't think about on a daily basis. Daniel Lemire[0] is a great example of someone who does this well. https://lemire.me/blog/ https://lemire.me/blog/