Re:Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day
by VectorLock on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @02:26AM
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I once had to work with some outsourced developers who would do "something(); something(); something();..." rather than "for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++) something();" when instructed to repeat something X times.
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Re:Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day
by ascar on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @03:02AM
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It's called loop unrolling and improves performance by eliminating loop control overhead and reducing branch mispredictions. Maybe they had a compiler background :)? /s
Re:Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day
by ktpsns on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @07:48AM
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If they had, they would know that virtually any compiler can do this on his own.
I also know these examples and I know the people who are writing them. "Copy & Paste" coding is just more convenient for them instead of writing a loop, fizzling with brackets, indation or whatever. They don't produce high entropy code.