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I find that sort of reasoning rather hollow. Yea, it’s easy to right simple fast software when you only target English, and don’t have to care about Unicode, i
by TylerE 4y ago
I find that sort of reasoning rather hollow.
Yea, it’s easy to right simple fast software when you only target English, and don’t have to care about Unicode, i18n, security, or any of a billion other things modern systems offer
- doliveira 4y agoI don't have objective stats, but I'd bet a substantial part of my income that none of these things even come close to 1% of the resource usage.
- TylerE 4y agoGood hashing algorithms can be pretty cpu intensive.
- doliveira 4y agoYou're talking about the algorithms for TLS? Or hashing as in hashing a lot of things in your application? Either way, I stand by my bet. They're irrelevant compared to the cost of the prevailing mentality of DX over anything else. Combined with the industry leaders having machines with 128 GB of RAM on 10 Gbps connections, this mentality guarantees software gets slower way more than hardware gets faster