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Re:“Clean” Code, Horrible Performance by Aeolun on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @07:46PM (#34977208)
> Casey's implied point is that clean code is already sacrificing performance from the start.

Where our opinion seems to diverge is where I accept that as being fine, for the sake of being clean/legible/understandable.

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Re:“Clean” Code, Horrible Performance by curtainsforus on Friday March 10, 2023 @07:53AM (#35093735)
The argument continues to say that the 'clean code' version isn't actually cleaner/more legible/more understandable. I, for one, am royally sick of spending 5 minutes trying to figure out which virtual function implementation was actually called!
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