On 8/25/13 3:00 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 8/21/2013 9:50 AM, Ramon wrote:
I am *not* against keeping an eye on performance, by no means. Looking at
Moore's law, however, and at the kind of computing power available
nowadays even
in smartphones, not to talk about 8 and 12 core PCs, I feel that the
importance
of performance is way overestimated (possibly following a formertimes
justified
tradition).
While a 5% performance boost is not relevant for consumer apps, it can
make an enormous difference for server side apps. For example, if you've
got a $100m server farm, 5% means you save $5m, and server farms can be
much, much bigger than that.
More than server acquisition costs, it's the electricity.
Andrei
