I would agree with you 100% if not for the fact that you're only looking at your own domain.Originally Posted by Mario F.
The speed issue is no issue at all anymore on desktop and client/server applications.
For instance, I had to make a big web application (on windows) a few years ago in which the customer demanded a certain performance. Like 20 web requests a second should be possible and 1 request involved parsing parameters, a database lookup, transform the results via xml/xsl to html and send back to browser. All that in 50ms you say, thats impossible! Of course not, we didnt have to look at all at code performance because if the application turned out to be too slow another server was added. In the end we ended up with 6 servers put behind a load balancer with the webserver tweaked for performance and all that crap. Performed like a maniac!
Where I dont agree with you is that I code gambling machines (on video) now on an m68k processor with a bit crappy videocard to say the least. Coding without regard to performance is just not possible. You will meet the system boundaries all too soon and you will find yourself constantly in a battle against the processor/amount of memory.
