This is true, but my approach was still not a great one. It turns out the data structure was only accessed in a very specific way, which I could have exploited to dramatically simplify the implementation. If I had researched the problem more before diving into my original idea, I could have achieved the same end goal with much less work.
Lessons upon lessons :)
Re:New Grad vs. Senior Dev
by austhrow743 on Sunday March 29, 2020 @03:18AM
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I have adhd. Every "couple seconds" of waiting is a chance for me to lose focus and "wait what was I doing?" 15 minutes later. This stuff definitely matters.
This stuff matters. These couple seconds per operation may very well be a difference between being able to open a 100k+ LOC file in the same editor you're doing your other work in, vs. giving up in frustration and looking for something else that can handle large files. Large files happen surprisingly often (in particular: log files, data dumps, machine-generated code). A "month of toiling" like this may immediately enable new use cases.