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It's a bit depressing that she has to go to such lengths in her introduction to justify the goal of lightweight and fast code. I started learning to code on a
by gary_0 4y ago
It's a bit depressing that she has to go to such lengths in her introduction to justify the goal of lightweight and fast code.
I started learning to code on a 25MHz 386, with no hardware floating point, clunky disk drives, and a dialup modem. Having to wait for anything to happen on a modern system, or suffer with any kind of noticeable interactive latency, is just flat-out unacceptable to me. Our machines are gods, yet our terrible bloated software makes them cry.
- vardump 4y agoI started with a 0.9 MHz system with 64.5 kB of RAM. And plenty of people have started with even less. By the time we were at 386s, code bloat was already pretty bad. Bad energy wasting performance is even worse than bloat. I'm horrified how much electrical energy bad code costs. We're already talking about a bunch of nuclear powerplants' output wasted!