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Re:Potato paradox by tntn on Monday August 13, 2018 @11:00AM (#17750598)
Profiling code. If you have a hotspot that takes 99% of the time and optimize it until your whole program is twice as fast, now that hotspot takes 98% of the time.
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Re:Potato paradox by TremendousJudge on Monday August 13, 2018 @01:28PM (#17751818)
hmm that actually sounds more intuitive than the potato example
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Re:Potato paradox by esrauch on Monday August 13, 2018 @03:09PM (#17752716)
Thanks! The potato example really didn't click for me but this one I can understand.
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