@Chris :
Actually yes. If we consider the device to run 20h a day, by
shaving a few microseconds there and there on billions of
operations a day over a whole machine park, you can enable
yourself to shut down some of them for maintenance more easily,
or pause some of them letting their battery lasting a bit longer
and economies have proven to be in the order of thousands $$
thanks to a redefined coding strategy.
Not even mentionning hardware usage which is related to heat and
savings you can pretend to have over a long run.
By changing some hardware a few monthes after their theorical
obsolescence, you can save a bit further.
And the accountant is very happy because he can optimize the
finance further (staggered repayment)
It enabled us to hire more engineers/hardware.
Of course, the saving is not only on this loop but on the whole
chain. And it definitely adds up $$$.
And there are a lot more things involved that benefit it (latency
and so on).
Yep. :)
