> Compute is really cheap these days, so I wonder how much it's worth it to squeeze every drop of performance out now. "What Andy [Moore of Intel] giveth, Bill

> Compute is really cheap these days, so I wonder how much it's worth it to squeeze every drop of performance out now. "What Andy [Moore of Intel] giveth, Bill [Gates of Microsoft] taketh away." * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law See also: > Wirth's law is an adage on computer performance which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law