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> Anything else is wasteful.

Everything has a cost. If the developer is a slave to machine architecture, development is slow and error prone. If the machine is a slave to a abstraction, everything will run slowly. Unsurprisingly, the real trick is finding appropriate balance for your situation.

Of course you can make things worse, in both directions.



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