After seeing this a couple years ago I started to be more responsible for my PHP code, writing it even with the slightest micro-optimizations possible, since more times people use my code (especially due to nature of PHP being executed in every http request), more energicity they waste because of my lazyness and more they pollute the planet. JIT was NOT included in this experiment, so the number can be much more lower.
I hope you will be responsible for your code so on too (generally I mean people using interpreted languages).
Don't know, and to be frank I don't feel so strongly about it either. I use perl because it's the language I happened to become fluent in some twenty years ago, and nowadays when I want to put together a simple utility script in python I usually just say "meh, fuckit" after ten minutes and finish it in perl instead.