[HN Gopher] The Day The Standard Library Died (2020)
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The Day The Standard Library Died (2020)
Author : xiaoniu
Score : 38 points
Date : 2022-06-18 17:13 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (cor3ntin.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (cor3ntin.github.io)
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| rurban wrote:
| Posted now the fifth time, see [past]
| jtaft wrote:
| Please rename the submission's title.
|
| The above sentence was mentioned in the article (without
| supporting evidence), and is not the focus of the article.
|
| Tldr of article; abi was chosen not to be broken, which is
| costing performance. Author argues if std library isn't
| optimized, alternatives will keep being developed, and std will
| be considered dead.
| dang wrote:
| Submitted title was "it is currently faster to launch PHP to
| execute a regex than using std::regex" but the submitter has
| since fixed it.
| Operyl wrote:
| Editorialized title, please keep the original titles!
| Dylan16807 wrote:
| I don't think there's anything wrong with trying to link to a
| specific part of an article, though. And in that context I
| wouldn't really call it editorializing.
|
| URLs make this harder than it should be.
| Operyl wrote:
| In the case of HN, it's explicitly against submission
| guidelines and frowned upon.
| Dylan16807 wrote:
| "Editorializing" is against the guidelines.
|
| Trying to submit a subsection of a bigger work, with the
| closest it has to a title, is perfectly acceptable... _if_
| it has its own URL. If it doesn 't have a URL, then you're
| screwed.
|
| One of the few benefits of tweet threads: you can link a
| particular tweet.
| Operyl wrote:
| I think we might be confused, originally the title was
| not " The Day The Standard Library Died" on HN. dang
| changed it back to that title. It was a completely
| different title, submitted originally: " "It is currently
| faster to launch PHP to execute a regex than using
| std:regex"" which is what I'm saying was editorialized.
| Dylan16807 wrote:
| The title was a direct quote pointing to a specific part
| of the article.
|
| If the article had been a series of tweets, they could
| have linked to that tweet and it would have been fine and
| not been editorializing.
|
| That's why I'm iffy on calling it editorializing. Even if
| it _is_ , I blame URLs for not allowing the equivalent of
| linking a specific tweet from a series.
|
| It's especially bad when there's a news roundup article
| talking about 3 or 4 different things, and you can't just
| submit the third one with the title of that section.
| dang wrote:
| Fixed now. More at
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31792578
| schemescape wrote:
| This seems to be an article about how ABI compatibility makes
| improving C++ more difficult.
|
| The submission title is currently "It is currently faster to
| launch PHP to execute a regex than using std:regex", and, while
| the article makes this claim, it doesn't provide any evidence for
| this. Maybe it's true, but that's not the point of the article
| (and I really doubt it's true in most cases--just the overhead of
| starting a new process and communicating back and forth is
| significant).
|
| Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
| tedunangst wrote:
| Where's the benchmark?
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