Back in the late eighties a colleague of mine was making a game for the Atari ST and he purposely put in some time wasting code in the game loop so that he had

Back in the late eighties a colleague of mine was making a game for the Atari ST and he purposely put in some time wasting code in the game loop so that he had to work against a smaller budget which gave him some contingency for later on when he needed some extra cycles.