[eraserj]

Time spent optimizing is time spent not adding features. /s

The "business value" of software optimization is not well known.

[imhoguy]

I wonder if computing resources peak, which I think we are at now with hardware manufacturing shortages and price explosion (GPUs, HDDs, SSDs), is going to change this perspective.

[EricE]

BTW came across this in some other reading today: https://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/2011/07/why-mechani...

[EricE]

lol - people were saying this in the 80's yet software has shown it can always outstrip the hardware resources thrown at it if one is not careful :)