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Re:Maybe people do care about performance and reliability by abakker on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @12:45PM (#34793009)
its really a perfect continuation of the Mark Twain, “I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”

Really succinct fast code probably takes more time than verbose, slow code.

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Re:Maybe people do care about performance and reliability by ChrisMarshallNY on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @01:09PM (#34793404)
Brevity is difficult.

It takes me a lot longer to write small code, than big code (CTRL-C -> CTRL-V).

A big part of my refactoring, is looking for copy/pasta, and trying to do things like refine base classes or protocols, and whatnot.

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