[andreasvc]

With "the debate" I referred to what is mentioned in the article of the two departments who disagreed about the best strategy.

I don't quite follow you. In the article it's made quite clear that people wanted the code to run faster because then they could get more work done. Yes there are conceivable scenarios in which faster code is not better, but the article made clear that it wasn't the case, so I think the speculation didn't add anything.