• kleeon [he/him, he/him]
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    1 month ago

    modern CS is taking a perfectly functional algorithm and making it a million times slower for no reason

    • bumpusoot [any]
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      1 month ago

      Given a small allocation can take only a few hundred cycles, and this would take at minimum a few seconds, it's probably between a billion and a trillion times slower.