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I'm so tired of people trotting this quote out. We get it – you don't care about performance – hardware is fast and your problems are easy. But there are people
by StefanKarpinski 12y ago
I'm so tired of people trotting this quote out. We get it – you don't care about performance – hardware is fast and your problems are easy. But there are people who have difficult problems to solve – some hard enough that the limits of what hardware can do represent a real constraint. For those people, having a deep understanding of hardware and performance is essential.
- AuntTillie 12y agoFeel free to dismiss what you already know, I am sure the world would be a better place if everyone was as wise as you.
- dang 12y agoI couldn't agree more. It is the most pre-fab of dismissals and takes threads like this in precisely the wrong direction: into generic goo, when we ought to be discussing salient details, like the impact of varying page alignments. Few of us have anything substantive to say about that, which is fine—but then we ought to post nothing, not regurgitate truisms.