I built a 2x faster lexer, then discovered I/O was the real bottleneck (opens in new tab)

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5 pointsmodulovalue3mo ago1 comments

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jll293mo ago

Nice story; that's exactly why people always warn from the eval called "premature optimization without measurement".

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jll293mo ago

Nice story; that's exactly why people always warn from the eval called "premature optimization without measurement".

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