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Re:I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchma... by andrepd on Friday July 25, 2025 @05:34AM (#44681311)
Absolutely! Proptesting is a great but underutilised feature. I use it a lot wherever I'm in a language which makes it easy (and with a mature library for that), like Haskell, Ocaml, or Rust.
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Re:I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchma... by Rendello on Friday July 25, 2025 @02:16PM (#44686371)
The simple cases are great demos, and then the complex cases melt your brain! But still worth it a lot of the time.
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