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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by throwaway7356 on Sunday March 31, 2024 @12:59AM (#39881572)
> There are simple usages like shifts to divide/multiply by 2.

Clean code should not do that as the compiler will do that.

Clean code should just say what it wants to do, not replace that with low-level performance optimizations. (Also wasn't performance to be obtained from newer hardware?)

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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by jononor on Monday April 01, 2024 @12:39PM (#39896047)
Fair point about shifting being superfluous and not clean!

I never said performance should come only from newer hardware. Only that it is possible to trade vs hardware/costs - unlike correctness and trust.

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