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@slipster216 @mike_acton My experience has been that people who harp on prioritizing readability over performance, write the least readable code anyway.
I've never been given a concrete example in such conversations either, it's just a vague idea that gets repeated.
@cmuratori@SheriefFYI There's a wide spread mentality that whatever code is not the highest level of abstraction is always impossible to understand in a reasonable amount of time and/or includes solutions to an infinite number of edge cases therefore discouraging anyone to look into it.
Comp sci in 2017:
Student: I get the feeling the compiler is just ignoring all my comments.
Teaching assistant: You have failed to understand not just compilers but the concept of computation itself.
Comp sci in 2027:
Student: I get the feeling the compiler is just…
One of the pitfalls of working in a large/legacy project is that if you decide to reimplement something it's likely that your new implementation will inherit some issues of the original implementation.
I'm tired of seeing lazy "software performance doesn't matter" excuses on forums and social media, so I devoted an entire video to the mountains of evidence debunking that ridiculous idea: computerenhance.com/p/performance-…
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