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On a related note, folks who found this interesting might also like to read “There’s plenty of room at the top” where computer scientists showed how orders of m
by ssivark 3y ago
On a related note, folks who found this interesting might also like to read “There’s plenty of room at the top” where computer scientists showed how orders of magnitude performance is left unused when a naive high-level implementation is not optimized for the hardware (combination of coding style and compiler insufficiency).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36921588 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36921588
Much broader in scope than OP, that also has many insightful nuggets there about how to think about software and system design, especially in the post Moore’s law era.