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It's not just about the money it cost to write the code. I mean, as a master C programmer I am not without sympathy for your suggested approach, but if you follow the philosophy of 'real men write the entire stack in hand-optimized C' and as a result it takes an extra six months before you're shipping, you might miss a key market window and then all the other considerations might end up not mattering.

It's not like we haven't seen this play out before. Over and over again, flexibility, easy debugging, time-to-market and Moore's law have gone up against the 'real men' approach - and won hands down. History doesn't always repeat itself - but it's usually the way to bet.



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