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All these things are possible to do, even though only developers need them. Why shouldn’t the same be true for useful profiling abilities? Because of the 1-2% p
by nemetroid 2y ago
All these things are possible to do, even though only developers need them. Why shouldn’t the same be true for useful profiling abilities? Because of the 1-2% penalty?
- Brian_K_White 2y agoAre you serious? Visa makes billions per year off of nothing but collecting a mere 2%-3% tax on everything else.
- oasisaimlessly 2y agoI don't see how Visa is in any way relevant here.
- Brian_K_White 2y agoI don't see why not. The whole point of an analogy is to expose a blind spot by showing the same thing in some other context where it is recognized or percieved differently.
- sfink 2y agoVisa sells money for money, skimming off a percentage. CPUs spends cycles for features (doing useful work). Enabling frame pointers skims off a percentage of the cycles. But it's the impact on useful work that matters, not how many cycles you lose. The cycles are just a means to an end. So x% of cycles is fundamentally incomparable to x% of money.