It can go to extremes. Like 100x by going from a dynamic to static language then 100x more adjusting the data structures/algorithm…
Once I got very confused when exactly this kind of 10k x speed up I demonstrated for a problem introduced to me as a business bottleneck then got ignored (I wasn’t on this team, though, but it’s still hard to understand the mentality and incentives there).
Once I got very confused when exactly this kind of 10k x speed up I demonstrated for a problem introduced to me as a business bottleneck then got ignored (I wasn’t on this team, though, but it’s still hard to understand the mentality and incentives there).