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It’s more sad than amazing. The amount of computing resources we waste for no real reaso. We have crazy fast technology that runs software just as slow as they did in the 2000s

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Not having to care about performance (because hardware is fast) allows us to build more software than ever before. Although optimized software saves on computing resources, it is wasteful on the most important resource of all: Software Engineers' Time. Not to say it's not important, but saying we are wasting computing resources for "no real reason" is not fair. There are a lot of delicate trade-offs involved.

That’s also the sad part. It’s no longer about taking pride in one’s craftsmanship and caring about the end-users experience. It’s about cranking out janky products to make money.

No, it's about delivering products faster or prettier.

There are fields where squeezing every tiny bit of performance matters — media compression, 3D software (including game engines), data processing, hardware.

Engineering is not art, it's about building things that can be useful.

Unfortunately as much as I love it, the new AoE2 DE has fallen to the same trap. Old AoE2 uses a fraction of the power (and disk space) compared to the new one.

Eh I disagree. On the same computer original aoe2 would lag like crazy even on a LAN with 4-5 players and pop. limit to 200, with AoE2 DE it's muuuch smoother

UserPatch 1.5 had insane improvements to LAN, so good that it actually felt like single player if the ping was low enough.

Unfortunately most of scripters work never got used for HD and DE2.

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