This is the answer for a one-off or occasional problem unless your time is worthless.
$200 to rent a machine that can run the naive solution for an entire day is peanuts compared to the dev time for a “better” solution. Running that machine for eight hours would only cost enough to purchase about a half day of junior engineer time.
$200 to rent a machine that can run the naive solution for an entire day is peanuts compared to the dev time for a “better” solution. Running that machine for eight hours would only cost enough to purchase about a half day of junior engineer time.