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[โ€“] MalReynolds@piefed.social 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" is a quote from Donald Knuth, one of the grand oldies of Computer Science. Basically get everything working and tested in the real world before even thinking about optimizing, it may be unnecessary or needed somewhere you didn't expect.

In this case the optimization of spinning down as fast as possible is good in the use case of servers to save power and heat, but not good for gaming.

[โ€“] Shayeta@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

That makes much more sense. I though you considered this fix a premature optimization.

Ultimately, I guess it depends on the workload.