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0 pointsJuvination1mo ago0 comments

I love scrolling and reading through this, thinking yeah of course Python is slower than Java, oh wow Rust is pretty on par I wonder what the Java devs did. Then you hit asm and your jaw drops.

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slaw1mo ago· 2 in thread

Check out cpp at 208.3 GiB/s, 3x faster than asm.

akie1mo ago

Yeah, because (and here's the trick) they are clever and do less work.

Optimizing things usually means "think of a way to do the same thing with less effort".

andai1mo ago

Hire the laziest programmer :)

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