> He's got a point: increase in minimum memory and increase in CPU performance means that superior programming isn't always necessary. Fun part about this is t

> He's got a point: increase in minimum memory and increase in CPU performance means that superior programming isn't always necessary. Fun part about this is that it might actually make it slower! Between cache misses, pre-fetchers and branch mispredictions the more naive search may make things significantly more predictable for the out of order execution on modern processors that the result is actually faster when you don't try to be clever with some of this. You still have to benchmark and not do things completely wacky but it's kind of interesting how things have changed because of the scale of the pieces.