I want to echo the "linear inefficiency, lol" meme.<p>But more importantly, the costs of inefficiency aren't clock cycles, it's the opportunity cost.<p>It depends on the situation, obviously, but inefficiencies can have a very real cost in terms of lost sales or customer dissatisfaction. The ROI will vary on a multitude of variables, but that's my point: these graphs simply don't reveal the complexity of costing models that really come in to play.