On Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 4:05:39 PM UTC-5, Your Name wrote:   
   > Yep, the good ol' days of programming, when you had a whopping 1K of   
   > RAM to play with, so had to program efficiently ... unlike these days   
   > of lazy, over-bloated, inefficient code.  :-(   
   >   
   > Write the "Hellow World" program on a VIC 20 BASIC and it takes up a   
   > few bytes. Write it on a modern computer in something RealBASIC, build   
   > the application, and it takes up a megabyte or more, thanks mostly to   
   > all the pointlessly included libraries that aren't even needed.   
      
   I agree totally!  Optimize a modern game for speed by 30%, and you will be   
   able to do 30% more special effects on a certain computer or the same on a 30%   
   slower computer, so optimizing can *still* help.  :)  Just my opinion.   
      
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