treesurgeon

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   by treesurgeon 2y ago

   That's great work and a terrific post. We had lots of legacy subcomponents that permeated throughout the app's data structures, and as a practical matter, we couldn't reopen all that existing code. Some of that legacy code cr
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   by treesurgeon 2y ago

   For routine fast numerical algorithm dev, Julia is like a modern c++ or fortran. Hyperspecialilzed isn't the right adjective here. Our team's big mistake was believing blog posts that swept laziness problems under the rug. In hind
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   by treesurgeon 2y ago

   Complete rewrite in julia solved it.
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   by treesurgeon 2y ago

   Just mix nontrivial data structures with algorithms that iterate until numerical convergence. Team of experienced devs fought space leaks for weeks, project schedule crashed, directly caused by Haskell's lazy eval. Management and custo