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As always in our field it is somewhere in the middle - having knowledge of the platform and the field is something that can give you some hints in advance about
by venomsnake 14y ago
As always in our field it is somewhere in the middle - having knowledge of the platform and the field is something that can give you some hints in advance about potential problems with the approach for a difficult problem.
After all a timely - "This is not going to work well because there will be lots of branch mispredictions and you will be going out of the L3 cache a lot, and RAM is terribly slow" can save a lot of time and effort for some classes of tasks that big scalabiliy companies have to deal often.