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Do you work on high performance/latency sensitive software? That makes total sense in that space, but I also have seen folks obsessing over performance details
by switchbak 2y ago
Do you work on high performance/latency sensitive software? That makes total sense in that space, but I also have seen folks obsessing over performance details for contexts where it really doesn’t doesn’t matter at all.
- koakuma-chan 2y agoThey have a point, the knowledge of C++ compiler intricacies is definitely very valuable, but it can hardly be described merely as programming language knowledge and be compared to, say, Python knowledge.
- Conscat 2y agoYes I am working on tools (some of) which have real time deadlines, albeit not the very strictest ones. We're currently operating around the video game definition of "real time" (and video games are a potential use case), so it's not a problem space where you can't be fast enough and users will always ask for more.