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Densely packed structures with no object oriented code sometimes make sense in latency critical code and are not uncommon in financial systems. That being said
by jfim 9y ago
Densely packed structures with no object oriented code sometimes make sense in latency critical code and are not uncommon in financial systems.
That being said, if they weren't trying to eke every microsecond of performance out of the system, then that's pretty poor design, maintainability wise.
- stcredzero 9y agoThat being said, if they weren't trying to eke every microsecond of performance out of the system, then that's pretty poor design, maintainability wise. She wasn't trying to eke every microsecond. There were some smart guys on our team, and we were all afraid of that code! The programmer who wrote it would fire back about her Mathematics PhD if you ever tried to bring up Object Oriented design. When I was there, she would sit in the cafe downstairs eating a sandwich, until something broke. She wrote herself fantastic job security!