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Not so sure. On a technical level at least, everything that I have read from him has been very concise and pragmatic. His programming advice is always to be as
by TremendousJudge 4y ago
Not so sure. On a technical level at least, everything that I have read from him has been very concise and pragmatic. His programming advice is always to be as simple as possible because simple is fast. For example, the one I always remember is that in order to optimize that you should try to remove as many "edge case optimizations" as possible, so that everything runs always the same way, and then optimize _that_.
- exitb 4y agoI do value simplicity very much, but this doesn’t seem true. There’s a reason why musl is slower than glibc, st is slower than xterm, OpenBSD is slower than Linux etc. It’s great if the optimization via simplification works out like that, but usually it doesn’t.