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ongoing by Tim Bray · Making Code Faster

I’ve enjoyed writing software for 40+ years now. Lots of activities fall into that “writing software” basket, and here’s my favorite: When you have a body of code with a decent unit-test suite and you need to make it go faster. This part of the Quamina diary is a case study of making a piece...

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Hasnain says:

Great read on profiling and optimizing code. It focuses on Go but the approach is general.

“Take-aways · Test. Benchmark. Refactor. Iterate. It’s not fancy. It’s fun. I have been known to whoop out loud with glee when some little move knocks the runtime down significantly. How often do you do that at work?”

Posted on 2022-06-14T05:46:49+0000