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> A new contributor consolidated the config files and cut the number of file open operations by a couple orders of magnitude. I don't think we ever properly tha
by dev_dull 7y ago
> A new contributor consolidated the config files and cut the number of file open operations by a couple orders of magnitude. I don't think we ever properly thanked that guy.
Unspoken benefit of “new person” — eventually someone not desensitized to the crap will throw up their hands and fix it.
- vidarh 7y agoSometimes it's so tiny too, but requires you to look at code that nobody else has a reason to look at any more. I once increased performance of a CMS by 30 percent my first day in the job because I happened to spot a handful of lines of unnecessary string copying while trying to figure out how the thing worked. Everyone else could have, but none of them had any reason to look at that part of the code because it worked.
- kbenson 7y agoThere's definitely something to be said for occasionally throwing a fresh frog into the pot to see if the slowly boiling frogs are, indeed, boiling.