This has always been the case. Computing power doubles every few years, and it's cheap (probably less than 10% of your total project cost, unless you are doing

This has always been the case. Computing power doubles every few years, and it's cheap (probably less than 10% of your total project cost, unless you are doing highly specific stuff). It doesn't make sense to optimise for CPU cycles as the real bottleneck is usually developer efficiency, I/O, and UX.