> > The z890 and z990 help by relieving some of the physical resource
> > constraints, but there's still only so much CPU to go around, and a
> > lot of "modern" applications waste enormous amounts of physical
> > resources simply because they *can* on other platforms --
> garbage in,
> > garbage out.
>
> This is known on the other platforms as "superior use of a
> programmer's time". I.e. tuning a program is no longer
> considered to be very important. As we used to say: "Just
> throw hardware at it!"

Indeed. Best summed up by Harlan Ellison:

"We've climbed up to the top of a mountain of cow flop, only to find that
we've lost our sense of smell."

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