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Re:3.7X speedup from removing a call to sleep by khet on Sunday September 02, 2012 @07:31AM (#4466780)
Reduced the number of lines in the code base AND improved the product? nice.
Re:3.7X speedup from removing a call to sleep by davvid on Monday September 03, 2012 @07:56PM (#4472371)
Double nice. A co-worker and I once had a joke where we wanted our code counts for the year to be negative. No one tracks code counts, of course, but it was a fun idea.

He eventually replaced a particularly ugly and complicated system with a much simpler system, and thus he met his goal of going into the negative. Less code is better code.