Well yes adobe made more money. Few have the knowledge to pirate the software. Some don't know how to protect software so they prefer web apps and they host them in their offices instead of using a third party hosting service.

So far as you love the job and the pay is good look for ways to contribute value. Call all your problems ephemeral challenges. It's better than a job you hate that doesn't pay.

How do you calculate latency in seconds given aggregated overhead and a given processor speed? In my post I explained how to calculate the overhead in a loop that is supposed to run a million times.

What are your core competencies when it comes to computer programming or software engineering? You've got to be an assembly language or a c programmer to readily perceive the analysis. If you wrote computer programs before 1999 this fact wouldn't be lost on you. The same is true for game developers or other performance critical devepors today. Take time to read the article or blog publication carefully and do some research; talk to some more people.

What do you understand by processor speed of 3.5 gigahertz? Some years ago the best you could get was 66megahertz.

I did offer some insight. You've got to read the full article. I even went further to calculate the cumulative performance overhead of an end user application using a database running on a runtime which is running on top of an operating system.