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I'm surprised no one has asked yet: Why is it faster?

• jgrahamc 19y ago
  Because Paul Graham woke up this morning and said, "news.yc is 50% faster. And Paul looked upon the site and saw that it was Good"
  • imsteve 19y ago
    The pages load for pg before he even clicks the links.
• pg 19y ago
  I changed some things about the way Arc handles strings.
  • henning 19y ago
    Do I detect premature optimization?
    • brlewis 19y ago
      Arc is a language implementation, not an application. Optimization of language implementations is arguably never premature. When such an optimization translates to an application speedup, it's indisputably not premature.
    • gruseom 19y ago
      "Premature optimization" has become a mantra for not thinking about performance at all. If users notice it, it's not premature.