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A comment on Ask HN: Was programming more interesting when memory usage was a concern?.

Re:Ask HN: Was programming more interesting when memory usag... by DamonHD on Sunday April 02, 2023 @03:13PM (#35414049)
It still is cool because of memory and CPU (power) and code constraints for embedded computing.
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Re:Ask HN: Was programming more interesting when memory usag... by morph123 on Sunday April 02, 2023 @03:15PM (#35414068)
I do want to get into that but where I am at embedded computing jobs are kind of rare. I do like programming in C quite a bit.
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Re:Ask HN: Was programming more interesting when memory usag... by DamonHD on Sunday April 02, 2023 @03:21PM (#35414120)
It's also possible to build Web pages that load very fast (eg some of the main readable content is within the first few TCP packets) and the like. You won't get a medal, but it's fun, and sometimes the perf experts notice unprompted!
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Re:Ask HN: Was programming more interesting when memory usag... by gostsamo on Sunday April 02, 2023 @03:18PM (#35414093)
You can try some home projects to decide if you like it.
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Re:Ask HN: Was programming more interesting when memory usag... by livueta on Sunday April 02, 2023 @06:37PM (#35416019)
It's nearly the exact opposite of resource-constrained computing, but HPC / exabyte-scale storage type stuff has some of the same vibe of needing to know your hardware and wanting to squeeze the most out of it that you can. Consistently saturating a 100GbE link is a very different problem from dynamic data structure allocation on a microcontroller or whatever, but you have to care about some of the same sorts of things.
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