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Re:Apple is looking for engineers to convert its code from C... by lmm on Saturday March 21, 2020 @07:41AM (#22645872)
> If you aim for performance, "pretty good" doesn't cut it.

It does in the overwhelming majority of real cases.

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Re:Apple is looking for engineers to convert its code from C... by malux85 on Saturday March 21, 2020 @08:24AM (#22646063)
But not at the trillion dollar company that is Apple, which is what we are talking about
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Re:Apple is looking for engineers to convert its code from C... by lmm on Saturday March 21, 2020 @10:48AM (#22646838)
Even for Apple, if "pretty good" performance were the price of avoiding another "goto fail" then it should be more than worth it.
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Re:Apple is looking for engineers to convert its code from C... by malux85 on Saturday March 21, 2020 @11:00AM (#22646930)
Sure, for some hypothetical tradeoff you just made up then sure ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But the reason companies as large as apple care so much about performance is because at their scale a 10% difference can easily mean 100,000 physical servers. So they do go to insane lengths to avoid "pretty good"

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