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Re:Optimizing Your Web App 100x Is Like Adding 99 Servers by midrus on Saturday November 21, 2020 @03:19AM (#25168473)
That's under the assumption that code doesn't have to be maintained, updated with new features, and that writing it on any programming language has the same cost.

Otherwise we would all be writing assembler.

Humans are way, way more expensive than servers in almost every case. Exceptions might be small pieces of code ran by millons of devices, but that's far from being the common case.

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Re:Optimizing Your Web App 100x Is Like Adding 99 Servers by otabdeveloper4 on Saturday November 21, 2020 @03:46AM (#25168546)
Assembly is expensive because you have you re-write your code every time your architecture changes.
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Re:Optimizing Your Web App 100x Is Like Adding 99 Servers by makapuf on Saturday November 21, 2020 @04:42AM (#25168715)
Architecture (x86_64 or arm on mobile) hasnt changed in decades. The way to optimize for it changes in years but you get a slightly less optimized version. Im sure software written in 2007 in assemble for linux pc works now, and fast. I think assembly is not cheap because the language is tiny, offers no abstraction and youre on your own for everything, not because of arch turnover.
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