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It's not like the machines are just /learning/ how to do low level stuff. People are doing deliberate research, modifying them, and testing them to make that ha
by microcolonel 11y ago
It's not like the machines are just /learning/ how to do low level stuff. People are doing deliberate research, modifying them, and testing them to make that happen.
Low-level optimizations are the least automated process I can think of.
- minthd 11y agoI'm talking about trends , not absolutes(not a sith). The share of programmers who are doing high level stuff(understanding users and encoding that ) versus those who optimize the low-level is always growing. Maybe it's ~90% today , vs less than 10% in the early years of computing when every byte counted and systems were less complex. > Low-level optimizations are the least automated process I can think of. And compilers automate low-level optimizations every day.
- microcolonel 11y agoNo they don't, humans write compiler optimizations every day, and toil over them. Compilers can only run existing optimizations.