One should indeed be forgiven when getting 30 years out of a code base, any code base. It's hard to predict that you'd need to shave milliseconds of cloud/VM st

One should indeed be forgiven when getting 30 years out of a code base, any code base. It's hard to predict that you'd need to shave milliseconds of cloud/VM startups or from some embedded device, if you can't imagine Clouds, VMs or computers the size of watches.