Much of the open source software that we all use daily is not optimized, or at least not well optimized. Code that is run billions of times a day shouldn’t be inefficient. In the last 10 years (especially in the last year), more of our lives are spent in front of a computer than ever. Computers have a non-trivial environmental impact. Recently Bitcoin’s environmental impact has popped up in the news, but the overall energy use of everyday software in both server farms and homes and offices is significant and steadily rising. There are plenty of people working diligently to make sure the code which runs the world is efficient, but what if some wrong assumptions were holding them back?