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^^^ Said Ford Fiesta driver…
Yeah, right…
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Are you being serious? Perhaps you don’t know the difference between need and want? Do I want a Ferrari? Absolutely. Do I need it, of course not. 
It seems to me your need for performance is based on some old school macho world view rather than reason or experience. We are also not talking about entertainment for the programmer. You can’t drive a game engine for fun. It’s a tool to create games and such there are many more considerations, such as productivity, usability and so on.