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Here it took almost 30 years for it to stop being fine, which is a pretty good run. And it was a blatant O(n^2) algorithm, easily swapped out, it’s not like th

Here it took almost 30 years for it to stop being fine, which is a pretty good run. And it was a blatant O(n^2) algorithm, easily swapped out, it’s not like they were calling sscanf in a loop and whoopsie turns out C strings are shit so now parsing a 4 characters decimal number is O(buflen^2).

alkonaut 3y ago
One should indeed be forgiven when getting 30 years out of a code base, any code base. It's hard to predict that you'd need to shave milliseconds of cloud/VM startups or from some embedded device, if you can't imagine Clouds, VMs or computers the size of watches.