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0 pointsmoffkalast3y ago0 comments

It should be written so it's easy for humans to understand first.

If that's too slow, then it can be optimized so it's fast, if a bit less readable.

9 times out of 10 it won't be too slow in the first place these days, unless you know beforehand that you need maximum speed for valid reasons.

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Shorel3y ago

Your opinion sounds too one-sided to me.

That complete disregard for performance is what gave us the endless Electron clients eating CPU/RAM just to do basic chat and music playing stuff.

If the code is written with care for both things, readability and speed, the actual state of things would not be so wasteful. You don't need to make it difficult to understand. Just don't disregard performance as an afterthought.

aaronbrethorst3y ago

Yep exactly

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