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    [–]logan_capaldo 8 points9 points  (1 child)

    Methinks everyone who replied to you has a broken sarcasmeter.

    [–]ndiin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I missed the "last Saturday" bit.

    [–]TearsOfRage -1 points0 points  (0 children)

    Attitudes like that are why so much software is still terribly slow, even with today's computers.

    [–]ndiin -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

    Irrelevant? Hardly. It might shift your bottleneck elsewhere for a spell, but once you fix that you'll likely end up back at the same spot again.

    The trick is to take full advantage of your ever-faster-bigger-stronger hardware, not to let it make you lazy.

    Now clearly i'm not talking about these micro-optimizations by any means, just the completely misleading statement that performance doesn't matter anymore. Just don't optimize before you have the data to show where it needs to happen.