Comment by baranul

Thought you made some very good points. Being faster to getting a working prototype and beta out the door, can be the difference between success versus failure for many, even though it might be at the cost of a bit more ram or it being a little slower.

Other related points are: 1) Feeling the need to be a bit faster versus an actually critical necessity. 2) GC is "bad" and manual is "good" silliness. 3) Premature optimization or unnecessary optimization.

These can be personal or even psychological issues, not reflected in reality. Kind of like a guy who spends globs of time and money on building a "must have" monster 10-second car, but 99% of the time, no one ever needs to go that fast. Speed definitely has its place, but is also relative to what is being done, the situation, and the hardware used.