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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

People who dislike code documentation are often overoptimizers, from my experience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

In my experience it is job security.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Optimizing like it’s the early 80s and every byte is precious? Or do you mean something else?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. Using 10 obscure instructions to save 1 clock cycle.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Assuming it even does save it. The complier is going to do what it wants to do. Unless you really know your stuff any high level language is going to be a black box. One guy I worked with loved to do that but he would be able to prove that it did matter.