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Related > The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971464 https://news.ycombinator
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> The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971464 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971464
- Dylan16807 1y agoI disagree. This is the kind of optimization that makes you need a 1.5MHz CPU instead of a 1MHz CPU, but saves devs weeks of effort. It's the kind of thing you give up when you move optimization from priority 1 to 2, or from 2 to 3. It would still run blazingly fast on a 30 year old computer. It's a perfectly good tradeoff. The stuff that bogs down modern hardware is optimization being priority 8 or not even on the list of considerations.