[HN Gopher] Performance Excuses Debunked [video]
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Performance Excuses Debunked [video]
Author : tommybu
Score : 26 points
Date : 2023-04-26 19:55 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| typon wrote:
| I kind of wish Casey would stop making these videos. I'm being
| completely serious when I say that this kind of knowledge and
| mindset gives you pretty much a superpower in the industry.
| Everywhere I go people think I am amazing, even though I just
| know a few things about performance and low level programming
| (like, enough to be amazing for "mere mortals", but someone at
| RAD would snicker at my knowledge). If the industry doesn't care,
| it's simply a competitive advantage for you as an individual.
| db48x wrote:
| I know what you mean; I've made a lot of money by cleaning up
| other people's messes. Still, I'm pretty sure I'd prefer a
| world where software was just better overall and there were
| fewer messes.
| db48x wrote:
| > So said brilliant engineer in Amsterdam, built an annealing
| algorithm in the release build to reorder the optimization passes
| in such a way to as minimize size. This shaved a whooping 11 MBs
| off the total machine code size and bought us enough runway to
| keep development going.
|
| Wow. You know you have made bad choices when you need a
| desperation play like that.
| tmtvl wrote:
| I like the positive message he leaves us with: the barrier to
| entry for good performance is as low as it's ever been. You can
| get good performance without needing hand-coded assembly SIMD
| vector optimizations.
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