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Every post like this makes me update my junior engineer watchlist. Then I have to go patiently explain why mucking about in the code to save one instruction bec
by ectospheno 3y ago
Every post like this makes me update my junior engineer watchlist. Then I have to go patiently explain why mucking about in the code to save one instruction because you read a blog post is a horrible idea. Easily half of all silly junior code is pointless optimization.
Having said that, I did enjoy the post.
- sph 3y agoWhat kind of junior engineers are you hiring that prematurely rewrite a hot loop to use branchless assembly logic? The junior employees I have had to deal with tended to build towering abstractions that no one really needed, rather than optimising hot loops.
- ectospheno 3y agoYes, I would say that is the other half.