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Re:“Clean” Code, Horrible Performance by Tomis02 on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @08:19AM (#34968939)
> If you have more than one person working on a codebase; clean code matters a lot.

You can have fast and clean code, just not the Uncle Bob style of "clean code". Uncle Bob hijacked the meaning of cleanliness. It doesn't mean that code written like that is actually clean, in fact it's usually the opposite: Uncle Bob's clean code is NOT clean.

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Re:“Clean” Code, Horrible Performance by marginalia_nu on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @03:58PM (#34974744)
It's also worth noting that Bob's advice is for Java, which has relatively unusual performance-idiosyncrasies around polymorphism and function calls. Much of the advice becomes very poor in languages that aren't JVM-based.
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