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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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