From: brangdonj@googlemail.com   
      
   In article <20130329101530.c82af800.jklowden@speakeasy.net>,   
   jklowden@speakeasy.net (James K. Lowden) wrote:   
   > Time in incompressible and money is fungible.  You can spend your   
   > time on efficiency gains or functionality, seldom both at once.   
   > You're asserting that the loss in productivity is economically   
   > justified.  All I'm asking is for you to describe that environment,   
   > if you would, because I've never heard of anything like it, except   
   > in the embedded space.   
      
   Nowadays efficiency can also be important for cloud-based computing,   
   where you pay for the cycles you use, and for mobile devices, where   
   it affects battery life.   
      
   I don't know much about either, myself. I gather some people have big   
   problems, which they solve by renting compute servers from the likes   
   of Amazon. Some of these systems are huge. Think about the processing   
   that Amazon themselves must do, for example. Or think about running an   
   online game with half a million users.   
      
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