Re:14,000x Speedup (2015)
by zimpenfish on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @06:47PM
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> I got into many heated discussions with "computer scientists" in the team.
Had a week long argument once about an (relatively) inefficient MySQL query because "it's not going to work for 1000 things" when a) we had barely 10 things currently running and b) the customer was >this far< from cancelling because stuff wasn't working (which this query would help with.) It was a frustrating time. I think there's a lot of developers who "know the price of everything and the value of nothing".
Had a week long argument once about an (relatively) inefficient MySQL query because "it's not going to work for 1000 things" when a) we had barely 10 things currently running and b) the customer was >this far< from cancelling because stuff wasn't working (which this query would help with.) It was a frustrating time. I think there's a lot of developers who "know the price of everything and the value of nothing".