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Re:The world could run on older hardware if software optimiz... by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @10:02AM (#43973093)
> All we'd have to give up is squishy hard-to-measure things like "feature sets" and "engineering velocity."

Would we? Really? I don't think giving up performance needs to be a compromise for the number of features or speed of delivering them.

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Re:The world could run on older hardware if software optimiz... by sorcerer-mar on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @10:15AM (#43973231)
People make higher-order abstractions for funzies?
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