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in thread CPU cycles DO NOT MATTER!

And when power prices make it more economical to optimize vs. throw hardware at it is when it will become cost-efficient to do so. Until then, the business loses money if it optimizes at every turn. As businesses only exist to make money, a money-losing business doesn't stay in business.
My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

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