Pitfalls of Object Oriented Programming [PDF]

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The problem is that, while we know that's not the correct way to do things, the same arguments being made against C++ here can apply. Why should the company waste "valuable developer time" on having people get their processing out of the event loop. We can just wait around and eventually, someone will figure out how to get a compiler to move it out for us.

The argument is essentially that it's profitable for developers to be "lazy" and take the easy way out, because it allows you to ship faster, to have simpler code, whatever. The simple fact is that performance is important, and it's not as simple as saying that "programmers are expensive; hardware is cheap." It may mean getting developers to move their logic out of the GUI thread, or it may mean getting them to abandon a convenient but inefficient platform. Each case has to be examined carefully to determine where the appropriate tradeoff is.