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In modern times the argument is the economic incentive is to optimize for the developer, not the hardware. Python, Node etc. over C.
by ralphc 3y ago
In modern times the argument is the economic incentive is to optimize for the developer, not the hardware. Python, Node etc. over C.
- eru 3y agoAnd most of the time that's the right trade-off. Not all the time, though. Eg consider a video game: the image frames have to be pumped out on a tight time budget every couple of milliseconds, but the logic to decide whether you have finished your quest can afford to run for a few seconds in the background. Even though the latter is much simpler and could probably be coded up to run on even the Timex m851 in fractions of a second.