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The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority

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835 points turrini | 1 comments | 13 May 25 10:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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SilverSlash ◴[13 May 25 12:08 UTC] No.43971991[source]▶
The title made me think Carmack was criticizing poorly optimized software and advocating for improving performance on old hardware.

When in fact, the tweet is absolutely not about either of the two. He's talking about a thought experiment where hardware stopped advancing and concludes with "Innovative new products would get much rarer without super cheap and scalable compute, of course".

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1. franktankbank ◴[13 May 25 14:01 UTC] No.43973089[source]▶
I think its a bad argument though. If we had to stop with the features for a little while and created some breathing room, the features would come roaring back. There'd be a downturn sure but not a continuous one.