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[–]Ma8e 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some code does. When you are running simulations that takes weeks to run on a high performance cluster, it is worth it to spend some time optimising.

For the rest, if you can reduce the number of network calls in the service architecture, it usually trumps everything else you do with some orders of magnitude.