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Late 80s, my buddy writes a programme to zoom in on the Mandelbrot set in interpreted GW-BASIC running on a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 processor. It's glacially slow, hours per picture, but we think it's awesome.

A few months later he gets a floppy disc with a Mandelbrot zoom programme written in hexadecimal machine code and running on a 6 MHz Motorola 68000. It does the same job in seconds.