Hello Travis,
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Today that reality is very visible already from certain spots. I've
recently switched fields from machine learning/nlp research to
web/industry. Although the fields are apparently very different, they
have a lot in common, along with the simple adage that obsession with
performance is a survival skill that (according to all trend
extrapolations I could gather) is projected to become more, not less,
important.
Andrei
Except in the web world performance is network and parallelism (cloud
computing). Much less code efficiency, much more programmer
productivity (which currently is mutually exclusive, but doesn't have
to be)
Even if you have network parallelism, CPU loads still costs money. Many server
farms are not space limited but power limited. They can't get enough power
out of the power company to run more servers. (And take a guess at what there
power bills cost!)
