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Indeed. What's a wrapper function's overhead compared to opening a file, which subsequently will be written to? Frankly, I wish this sort of blog post wouldn't
by nandemo 15y ago
Indeed. What's a wrapper function's overhead compared to opening a file, which subsequently will be written to?
Frankly, I wish this sort of blog post wouldn't be upvoted here. It's one thing when someone asks a basic question on StackOverflow. Even experienced programmers can learn with the answers. But when someone writes an "authoritative" blog post that misses the basics, it's more noise than signal.
- snprbob86 15y ago"What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting." [1] I agree about this being an insane premature optimization, but the C:\ being a bug regarding line continuation within comments? That's fucking fascinating. [1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- TorKlingberg 15y agoTo be fair, the bug that the post is about has nothing to do with his optimization. That is just context.
- joshu 15y agoWell, jrockway's deconstruction was pretty nice to read even if the original was boring.
- nandemo 15y agoPoint taken. I learned something with the comments if not with the original article.