About Performance

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English - August 28, 2023 07:00 - 37 minutes - 17.2 MB
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Performance: we wish the incentives were there to focus on it more often.

Lars would like more opportunities and incentives to focus on making things fast, rather than just making them not slow. Unfortunately, things tend to line up so that fast enough and more features are in focus. Plus, performance and optimization can be very context sensitive and age out without anyone really noticing.

Also pondered: IRC, Gentoo, and the eldritch horrors buried within the x86 architecture.

Links

Grep os.walk() in PythonWhy GNU grep is fast Ripgrep Ag - the silver searcher Travelling salesman problem Bin packing Mnesia ORM Project Euler Fibonacci numbers D. Richard Hipp - the guy behind SQLite Changelog episodes with Richard XKCD and IRC IRC IRCCloud Matrix and Element Elm SVG Canvas Neovim Lisp Arch Nix Gentoo Funtoo Dart Flutter Skia - the graphics library under FlutterLinked list Pointers CISC - Complex instruction set computerRISC - Reduced instruction set computerio_uring

Quotes

Given up on old man ElixirGotta go fastI never really needed itGrep, naivelyAll the problems at the same timeTravelling knapsack problemMy ORM-infected brainMeasuring things and muttering under my breathI have a hobby, I do job interviewsTools by toolmakers for toolmakersI'm the IRC guyMachine-whispering optimization