Yeah, I do agree on the general point, that we should also focus on performance, and not do pointless/suboptimal things when it takes little or no extra effort to do things better.
And indeed, wasted computational resources have an ecological cost, particularly when we're dealing with calculation-intensive tasks like simulations on supercomputers and stuff like bitcoin (though there, the inefficiency is supposedly a feature). For the most part though, this kind of discussion tends to resolve around (clever) low-level micro-optimizations, while the need for (more transparent) architectural optimizations are left out of the discussion.
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Yeah, I do agree on the general point, that we should also focus on performance, and not do pointless/suboptimal things when it takes little or no extra effort to do things better.
And indeed, wasted computational resources have an ecological cost, particularly when we're dealing with calculation-intensive tasks like simulations on supercomputers and stuff like bitcoin (though there, the inefficiency is supposedly a feature). For the most part though, this kind of discussion tends to resolve around (clever) low-level micro-optimizations, while the need for (more transparent) architectural optimizations are left out of the discussion.