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Yes! Thank you very kindly sir!

The answer is you build a team that builds tools to make optimization easier for everyone in the engineering organization. One individual team can't optimize every application, but if you make it easy for every engineering team to profile their applications and debug performance problems, you've enabled every team to continuously optimize the low-hanging fruit. In effect, you're no longer solving one-off 8-figure problems, you're optimizing the time of other engineers which is something that pays off in perpetuity.

Good large engineering organizations have these teams, and understand their value. For smaller companies, it's not as clear if you can reasonably fund a team for that kind of work.

This Mill guy is the gift that keeps on giving. With any luck he’ll still be around to explain how the soon-to-be-released Mill 1.0 cpu would have avoided the year 2038 problem.

I believe something similar (maybe exactly that) was suggested later on in the thread.

From the article:

> (Disclosure: I used to work at Goldman designing derivatives, not apps. Also I have a Marcus savings account.)