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Unfortunately, neither "waste time" nor "waste space" are approaches worth pursuing. We already have too many programs being written that are too simple and th
by o11c 1y ago
Unfortunately, neither "waste time" nor "waste space" are approaches worth pursuing.
We already have too many programs being written that are too simple and thus slow and/or wrong. We need to write code that is as simple as possible, but no simpler.
- kragen 1y agoIn practice you can always make a program take less space if it can use more time, or take less time if it can use more space; the guiltless perfection you seek does not exist. I feel like PEG parsing can be fast and space-efficient, but I haven't seen an existence proof yet.