1 MB is a fair bit of RAM to deal with, and compilers tend to be fairly efficient (particularly if your code lacks structure, as many assembly programs would).
I tend to disagree with the "if you value your time" bit though. Programmers tend to create things for other people, not just themselves. So any programmer who values their time above mine leaves me in dismay. After all, 10 seconds here, 10 seconds there, and soon enough it amounts to real man seconds of lost time. Well, maybe Job's mantra for the original Macintosh doesn't work when there are only a few hundred classic Mac users left.
I tend to disagree with the "if you value your time" bit though. Programmers tend to create things for other people, not just themselves. So any programmer who values their time above mine leaves me in dismay. After all, 10 seconds here, 10 seconds there, and soon enough it amounts to real man seconds of lost time. Well, maybe Job's mantra for the original Macintosh doesn't work when there are only a few hundred classic Mac users left.