>>47Who the fuck cares about the demands on hardware? People are expensive. Giving every developer a latest & greatest decked out PC costs less than a quarter of a month's salary, and that developer's likely to be on for years.
It's only at the datacenter scale where you can spend all the optimization time to reduce real computational costs, and even in this situation the profit margin on hardware expenses is generally going to be acceptable.
You're microoptimizing things that don't matter, just to feed your own delusion that the small scope of things you know how to do are somehow important.