I don't care that it's X times faster

Yeah, this is a rant. I saw a post on r/rust and it triggered me. Rather than putting it in my diary or keeping it between me and my therapist I'm putting it on the internet because I suspect there are some kindred spirits out there. I'm sure this will go well for me. Also, yeah, I've written a post about making things faster, but that was about the incremental improvements I made to (1) something…