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Let me be clear about my claim: tailor made solutions to each problem will almost always be faster than generic solutions. Do you really disagree with that? I

Let me be clear about my claim: tailor made solutions to each problem will almost always be faster than generic solutions. Do you really disagree with that? I disagree with it in the sense that I disagree with the statement "A human will always be able to write the same or better assembly than a C compiler, because humans can learn the compiler's tricks and make optimizations which the compiler is not allowed to make." It's a true statement, but it's so detached and irrelevant that it hardly matters. Generic code has proven itself time and time again, even Go caved in and supported it.

commonlisp94 3y ago
The assembly example isn't a good comparison. We have compilers that can generate a lot of assembly tricks most programmers wouldn't write. We don't have a way compiler that can analyze the logical constraints of a programming problem and simplify the data structures in the library. > Generic code has proven itself time and time again, even Go caved in and supported it. I'm not saying anything against the language feature generics. There is plenty of use for them even in a self contained code base.