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Re:How VSCode made bracket pair colorization 10,000x faster by david2ndaccount on Thursday June 22, 2023 @12:03PM (#36434265) 

    > look, I'm sorry, but the rule is simple:
    > if you made something 2x faster, you might have done something smart
    > if you made something 100x faster, you definitely just stopped doing something stupid
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Re:How VSCode made bracket pair colorization 10,000x faster by seventhson on Thursday June 22, 2023 @12:32PM (#36434693)
It might be stupid, or it also might just be naive, or a shift in priorities.

100x throughput improvement might just come from caching results from earlier computations (less naive) - at the cost of 10x memory footprint possibly (different priorities).

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