Re:Optimizations on Linear Search (2016)
by higerordermap on Saturday October 03, 2020 @12:08PM
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Not just that, in a language with reasonable abstractions it is max(elems), maybe in some external module. His arguments about simpler / less buggy code don't apply.
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Re:Optimizations on Linear Search (2016)
by secondcoming on Saturday October 03, 2020 @02:06PM
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Someone has to write the algorithm beneath those abstractions. It's not magic. There's a point in the abstraction call stack where the programmer needed to understand how a CPU actually works.
Re:Optimizations on Linear Search (2016)
by higerordermap on Saturday October 03, 2020 @10:35PM
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Same applies for his sort example. Someone has to write sort. Except that now also includes sorting.
In a language with lazy stream abstraction, the max() function can be pretty efficient.