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Re:Why bad scientific code beats code following “best practi... by andrepd on Sunday August 28, 2016 @05:47PM (#12378705)
>I curse the lack of attention to performance in modern software development every time the Twitter app takes multiple seconds to load on my 2 GHz smartphone.

I strongly agree with the sentiment, but also it should be noted that the load time of applications is related more to the storage speed, which is often abysmally bad in phones.

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Re:Why bad scientific code beats code following “best practi... by userbinator on Sunday August 28, 2016 @06:01PM (#12378748)
If they didn't have so much code (and data) to load in the first place, a lot of it probably unnecessary, applications would certainly load much faster.
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Re:Why bad scientific code beats code following “best practi... by oldmanjay on Monday August 29, 2016 @12:51AM (#12380075)
People who aren't performance obsessed programmers enjoy detailed graphical interfaces, and those tend to require lumps of code and data. It's fine to decry it I guess, but it won't be changing any time soon.
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Re:Why bad scientific code beats code following “best practi... by andrepd on Monday August 29, 2016 @10:50AM (#12382195)
The point is that you can have those without the fluff and layers of inefficiency that modern programming introduces.
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