Comment by Zelizz
8 years ago
That's one of the reasons that I'm actually a little excited for Moore's Law coming to an end. For years it has been more economical to program quickly and somewhat wastefully, leaving many people with slower computers behind. Now the economics are changing, and the competition will be in creating the most efficient software, to everyone's benefit.
We just moved everything to the cloud, where you can microservices your way to even more wasted MIPS. In the past, your text editor only wasted both cores on your laptop, but now it can waste all the cores on half a dozen AWS instances.