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But it's an external database with its code and its optimizations. In this case it seemed that it was just doing a binary search, but it was using an already so

by kick 7y ago

But it's an external database with its code and its optimizations. In this case it seemed that it was just doing a binary search, but it was using an already sorted dataset that the OP of that comment wasn't using. I again point to the C standard library. Modern standard-compliant C can do almost nothing without it. I don't even think it can handle IO without it. The language is cryptic and the variable names are even more cryptic. You're thinking of it in a light that doesn't help you understand; don't think of it as a variable, think of it as a definition. "jk is defined as..."

gjulianm 7y ago
> You're thinking of it in a light that doesn't help you understand; don't think of it as a variable, think of it as a definition. "jk is defined as..." I was just trying to read the code for "file" and see if I understood a little bit of the implementation they did. In this case I don't even know where even is the function that opens a file or writes to a file. I don't think that's good code and I don't believe that thinking of it in terms of a definition is going to help.