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Updated Who cares about efficiency, I have 8 GB and|or a quad core CPU (markdown)

Raymond Hill 2015-01-08 12:51:11 -05:00
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Who cares about efficiency, I have 8 GB and|or a quad core CPU.md

@ -11,6 +11,14 @@ Doing more with less is a virtue in software. For users of µBlock, this means:
Memory and CPU cycles are finite resources. A sure way for a developer to **not** be hired when being interviewed is to dismiss efficiency work because "memory is plentiful" or "CPU nowadays are fast enough". Memory and CPU cycles are finite resources. A sure way for a developer to **not** be hired when being interviewed is to dismiss efficiency work because "memory is plentiful" or "CPU nowadays are fast enough".
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> "Come on people, we are buying our hardware precisely for this - to be used" [[source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8803595)]
_Wasting_ is not _using_.
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If you have a multi-core CPU, and hence plenty of spare CPU cycles, granted, there may not be such a noticeable difference in page load, but other popular blockers will definitely make use of plenty of whatever spare CPU cycles available (see below) to perform the same job as µBlock. If you have a multi-core CPU, and hence plenty of spare CPU cycles, granted, there may not be such a noticeable difference in page load, but other popular blockers will definitely make use of plenty of whatever spare CPU cycles available (see below) to perform the same job as µBlock.