Post #2716238
2026-04-25 02:20 UTC
@TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place Knuth wrong about the well documented perils of premature optimization? Un huh.
I think, perhaps, from your last sentence you don’t understand the nuances of Knuth’s point, which was mostly an expansion on Tony Hoare, anyway.
Knuth never argued to wait until the end to optimize, by the way.
And long experience tells me that concentrating one level down rarely works as well as concentrating on good abstraction before writing code.
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@TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-25 03:29
@MartyFouts@mastodon.online Come on - I've been doing this for 45 years now, at every level of abstraction from Python to VHDL. I don't patronise you, so maybe return the favour? We can have a discussion with differing opinions and viewpoints without getting shitty about it.