From an environmental perspective, perhaps the present-day software industry's disinterest in computational efficiency is similar to Victorian housebuilders' disinterest in thermal efficiency?
The industry tells you that all that matters is to build stuff ASAP. But you leave a horrible legacy of energy-hungry beasts.
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