[taeric]

Funny, because I read it more as learning to cope with state. Do you want to scale for performance? You need to delicately manage state.

You can do local tricks to hide change in state. Consider, many even simple addition operations in your computer are destructive. At the end of the day, though, your application's value is in the state it manages.

There may be a panacea in there some where. However, it often seems that performance is heavily sacrificed in the name of scalability. Which is scary, because performance is the main reason my scalable phone is driving me batty.