Comment on New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels

• Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  People who dislike code documentation are often overoptimizers, from my experience.

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  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In my experience it is job security.

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  • DarthBueller@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Optimizing like it’s the early 80s and every byte is precious? Or do you mean something else?

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    • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Exactly. Using 10 obscure instructions to save 1 clock cycle.

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      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Assuming it even does save it. The complier is going to do what it wants to do. Unless you really know your stuff any high level language is going to be a black box. One guy I worked with loved to do that but he would be able to prove that it did matter.

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