The Uselessness of "Fast" and "Slow" in Programming

Every field of human activity has its unique characteristics, and&#xA;programming is no exception. &#xA; One of the unique aspects of software is how it spans such a large&#xA;number of orders of magnitude. A software engineer may be slicing and&#xA;dicing nanoseconds, or they may be trying to accelerate a computation&#xA;that will run across thousands of cores for a month&hellip; and they…