AuntTillie

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   by AuntTillie 12y ago

   My position is based in pragmatism. Code that works and is delivered in time is often more desirable than code that works, is fast, but delivered late. There's always a cost-benefit tradeoff to be made and if warm bodies yield more p
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   by AuntTillie 12y ago

   Quite right, but if you ship software to customers you'd have to profile on a variety of CPUs or risk regressing on other models. Profiling on recent Intel x86_64 CPUs gave me the (perhaps false) impression TFA author writes for a know
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   by AuntTillie 12y ago

   "Page align everything" by convention is in fact a form of optimization without profiling. TFA explains in detail why this is yet another bad idea, perhaps you read something in my comment I did not write?
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   by AuntTillie 12y ago

   "Premature optimization is the root of all evil" -- Donald Knuth What works for i386 may not be applicable on arm/hppa/ppc/etc. It should not even matter these days as almost every CPU clocks well over 1000MHz. If