Imagine a website where EVERYONE sees the exact same content. You could just calculate that content once, save the result, and give everyone that pre-calculated result. This is called caching (roughly speaking).
Now imagine the other extreme: NOONE sees the same content. That means you have to do your (comparatively) expensive calculations every single time. That requires a lot more compute power, esp. if you want to maintain a decent speed.
Most websites aren’t entirely one or the other, but in general anything customizable will make things just a little less cache-able, and therefore everything a little more compute-intensive. Blocking is one of those customizations.
Computational power has Jack shit to do with his decision. That’s just a cheap talking point meant to justify it in our eyes as if most of us even know what it means.
Stop letting obvious concern trolls manipulate you into accepting absurdities.
It’s quite computationally expensive to hold on to the block feature. He’s out to save money.
Curious about this, what makes it computationally expensive?
Imagine a website where EVERYONE sees the exact same content. You could just calculate that content once, save the result, and give everyone that pre-calculated result. This is called caching (roughly speaking).
Now imagine the other extreme: NOONE sees the same content. That means you have to do your (comparatively) expensive calculations every single time. That requires a lot more compute power, esp. if you want to maintain a decent speed.
Most websites aren’t entirely one or the other, but in general anything customizable will make things just a little less cache-able, and therefore everything a little more compute-intensive. Blocking is one of those customizations.
Computational power has Jack shit to do with his decision. That’s just a cheap talking point meant to justify it in our eyes as if most of us even know what it means.
Stop letting obvious concern trolls manipulate you into accepting absurdities.