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Re: The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority

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"Everyone" is for lack of a better word, stupid, and routinely votes against their own interests, and don't know what they actually want. Just ask Americans.

I agree, and that's why the decision-making process should be more complex than just a simple vote. It should be a process where everyone participating is forced to consider the issue from all sides.

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Re: The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority

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> What I realized is that lower costs, and therefore lower quality, This implication is the big question mark. It's often true but it's not at all clear that it's necessarily true. Choosing better languages, frameworks, tools and so on can all help with lowering costs without necessarily lowering quality. I don't think we're anywhere near the bottom of the cost barrel either. I think the problem is focusing on improv…

Could you link any of these studies? I couldn't find anything specific when searching.

Might be a good place to start, some citations and calculations in the replies there:

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/450699

I did read actual studies that were conducted years ago, but don't have access to them at this point.

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