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> Abstraction fosters ignorance about low level programming. > If we forget low level stuff, civilization will fall apart since we won't be able to keep vital
by scotty79 2y ago
> Abstraction fosters ignorance about low level programming.
> If we forget low level stuff, civilization will fall apart since we won't be able to keep vital software running.
There's barely anything to remember. Most of low level stuff did 180 in last 3 decades. RAM is slow now, compute is fast. Drives can be almost as fast as RAM. Sometimes it's better to do more than less to make code branchless. It's best if you can split your task into thousands of micro-threads and run on GPU.