alt Hacker NewsI can't stop thinking about all the unoptimized code we have around. As processors (and memory) over the last 2-3 decades improved faster than we needed to fix the inefficiencies we created, we silently accepted that we don't need efficiency everywhere. So maybe a compiler, an emulator or some critical piece of code were created with this in mind, but the average app or website just waste resources left and right and pray for the best.
With more and more code being written with AI (which has notoriously inefficient solutions to simple problems), I expect this issue to become more prevalent. I just hope we optimize at the source of the problem (AI and humans using it) and not on platforms (compiler and engine/kernel heuristics)
Half the compute and reduce memory by factor of x4 and in a decade we’ll have double the performance we have now.
I do old school embedded, the amount of desktop bloat is insane. Any function I really need to refactor, I can reduce size and improve performance. And there are better engineers out there that are more efficient than me.