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2026-04-25 01:12 UTC
@TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place Ironically, some of the slowest ugliest code I have had to debug is in compilers. 😉
But as Knuth pointed out long ago, the fastest way to slow code is premature optimization (but that’s far from the point of this discussion.)
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@TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-25 01:16
@MartyFouts@mastodon.online Well that's a whole other discussion, on which I and many others are perfectly comfortable with Knuth being wrong. It is the act of thinking one level down, that ensures that people don't end up with a mad panic scramble to optimise inherently slow code at the end of the project.