As for your compiler statement — yes. At least at Apple, there is ongoing clang compiler work, focused on security, that actively makes things slower, and there has been for years.
"The code was wrong, so it was OK that I made it slower" is a message board argument, not a business argument.
> As for your compiler statement — yes. At least at Apple, there is ongoing clang compiler work, focused on security, that actively makes things slower, and there has been for years.
The performance of code that runs on consumer devices has less of a measurable economic impact than that of code that runs on the server.
And yet, here I am, in a business, watching that argument play out in realtime.
> The performance of code that runs on consumer devices has less of a measurable economic impact than that of code that runs on the server.
The performance of the device literally in the entire world’s hands every day is arguably quite a bit more impactful that Facebook having to buy more servers.