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"Computers are in fact very fast" and "certain programs do in fact demonstrate that" and "the real-world experience of using computers for most people is that performance is largely treading water or going backwards" due to a boom in software inefficiency, can all be true at the same time.

> That would be crazy to imagine 10 years ago

We had this in 2013. Would have handled the job with a well written parser.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/77779/i...

No, not crazy: https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-...

~10 years ago I parsed 15GB of Windows binary logs with xargs, grep and strings(1) in minutes. Minutes. Less than 1/4 of an hour.

A complied language can be over 1000 times faster than Python, so maybe the dual core from 10 years ago would have been fine.

Yes. I am writing more code in Golang for that reason. I'll take the 100x increase any day.