Comment by didgetmaster

I agree. Faster hardware or horizontal scaling on distributed cloud environments can mask the problem; but it certainly doesn't solve the problem of bloated, inefficient software.

While it might not be necessary to spend hours fine-tuning every function; code optimization should be the mindset of every programmer no matter what they are coding.

How many fewer data centers would we need if all that software running in them was more efficient?

https://didgets.substack.com/p/finding-and-fixing-a-billion-...