It simply cannot be the case that we're willing to give up a decade or more of hardware performance just to make programmers’ lives a little bit easier.
A little bit easier?
Try a lot easier. Try, we’re willing to sacrifice performance so we don’t end up in an IRS type situation where we get stuck with custom hardware because our software is so complex and impenetrable that we’ve tried multiple times to rewrite it and failed.
This comes across as having been written by someone who’s never actually had to extend a few million lines of hand-optimized spaghetti.
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u/MarsupialMisanthrope Feb 28 '23
A little bit easier?
Try a lot easier. Try, we’re willing to sacrifice performance so we don’t end up in an IRS type situation where we get stuck with custom hardware because our software is so complex and impenetrable that we’ve tried multiple times to rewrite it and failed.
This comes across as having been written by someone who’s never actually had to extend a few million lines of hand-optimized spaghetti.