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I simply agree with what you said. "Computation is always free" made me cringe as well. I also felt that the initial page is abruptly stopped without giving any
by krzepah 7y ago
I simply agree with what you said. "Computation is always free" made me cringe as well. I also felt that the initial page is abruptly stopped without giving any kind of explanation.
Then clicking next you get jumped into a new language implementation : /
- dllthomas 7y agoThe statement was "almost free", which is much more defensible than "always free", even if it doesn't fit every context. If we're limiting what we mean by "computation" to a few extra non-branching instructions on data we already have, I would probably even endorse it outside particularly unusual settings.