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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about null pointers by mr_00ff00 on Friday January 31, 2025 @11:57PM (#42895785)
“Most important optimization is developer time and code cleaniness”

True for 99% of programming jobs, but if you are worried about the speed of null checks, you are in that 1%.

In high frequency trading, if you aren’t first your last and this is the exact type of code optimizations you need for the “happy path”

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