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Agreed. Our computers are so powerful, do we really need this additional complexity?

And of course, if performance becomes an issue, we can make minor improvements then.

That’s why all these programs land these improvements - the performance optimizations were needed. It gets tricky of course because a performance optimization you needed at one time may no longer be needed as HW perf increased or may even be a penalty as HW architecture diverged from the target one that was optimized for.

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