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by Loic 3957 days ago
I develop thermodynamic code for the oil & gas industry. I count the number of divisions in my code. Because a division is a really expensive operation if you need to do it billions of time.

So yes, there are still a lot of people worrying about performance, but a lot of them are coding in Fortran and this is definitely not sexy. Ok, now we also use CUDA, so this can go through the HN filter ;)