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And since the optimization also was about not making a call to a database in every loop iteration if you don't need to, i'd say it's also pretty basic stuff. A
by bsaul 11y ago
And since the optimization also was about not making a call to a database in every loop iteration if you don't need to, i'd say it's also pretty basic stuff.
Am i missing something as to why this is on the front page ?
- SeanDav 11y agoIts Go. Current darling on HN. One could write a blog on how to format "hello world" in Go/Golang and it would likely make the front page, especially if it was given a catchy title like "Critical string optimizations in Go"
- coldtea 11y ago>Am i missing something as to why this is on the front page ? Only that fact that it's a social bookmarking site -- so whatever is voted gets to the front page. In other words: lots of HN readers find it interesting.
- maxxxxx 11y agoI remember reading somewhere to become a star in programming you just need to look up some papers from 10 years ago and republish them. Everybody has forgotten them since then so this stuff is suddenly innovative.
- jsight 11y agoIt is Go and the title is interesting. I suspect that many of the upvoters didn't read the article and conclusions before voting. That usually works out ok, but sometimes it results in upvoting really obvious things like this.