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I wasn't very optimistic about software becoming any faster in the foreseeable future, but this guy convinced me that there are good reasons for the industry to pay more attention to performance:
No need, today's hardware is so fast that we don't need to care about performance that much.
Result would be too small, optimizations would probably give no more than around 10% increase in performance.
Not worth it, if we can spend a fixed amount of time on performance improvements vs. developing new features, the latter is always more beneficial.
Niche: performance only matters for games, embedded sw, etc. but not for our field.
Hotspot: most programmers don't need to care about performance, most performance problems tend to concentrate around a few hotspots, so a few experts are enough to fix them.
Maybe we will do a double feature with these 2 videos.
speaker: Bryan Lunduke
topic: software and programmer quality
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqs7FQ0sep8
length: 15'
I get Bryan know as "the guy that made 'Linux Sucks' talks at Linux conferences", but last (and possibly final) was 5 years ago.
He asks in this podcast, where and how 20-30 years hardware development gone. And he calls for programmers to write lean, light, fast software.
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