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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The joy of FORTH (not)
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 14:48:15 -0700
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On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:52:22 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

> How much of your time did it take to save that byte?
> 
> Think of how many bytes you would need to save per hour of your time,
> to make it worthwhile to whoever is paying for that time.

Well, that's the question, isn't it? Same as anything in the tech world.
And the answer depends greatly on the individual use case, the devs'
familiarity with the tools in question, and the cost of a byte's worth
of hardware.

Thankfully, it's also something that we can consider Someone Else's
Problem any time it's not actually our problem.