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I have only experience with Chrome codebase and while it's C++ (which I don't personally like) it's pretty solid and most of the weird hairy stuff were the exte

• troupo 1y ago
  Remember "25000 string allocations per each key stroke"? https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-dev/c/EUqoIz2iFU4/m/kPZ5ZK0K3gEJ?pli=1 https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-dev/c/EU...
  • quietbritishjim 1y ago
    That's certainly interesting but to give context for those not following the link: This is for entering into the address/search bar, so it covers all the work of searching history, performing network requests to autocomplete search terms, and displaying those results. It's not like entering a character into a regular text box on a page.
    • troupo 1y ago
      IMO no amount of context can justify 25000 string allocations per key stroke :) Also, if you read the issues in the first post, it has nothing to do with "covering all the work". It's just really bad programming
• prmoustache 1y ago
  Using badly written external linked library is bad software engineering / quality too as the responsibility lies into who are linking it.