Re:Optimizations on Linear Search (2016)
by gameswithgo on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @10:14AM
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A lot of software would be better if more programmers had built up some intuition about performance issues by being encouraged, rather than discouraged, when learning. A lot of kids coming out of college have absolutely no exposure to anything low level, or with regard to constant factor performance improvements.
> when the person is just learning/curious
Not that the code being bad matters in such a case, but if something is just for learning/curiousity, then it is by definition not critically important. Sometimes trying to optimize it is the terminal goal, but it's basically never a relevant instrumental goal.