Only a tiny minority of professional programmers have a clear picture in their minds of how fast modern computers are. 99.9% have next to no idea. How does this affect software that is even conceived? (Ignoring, for a moment, what is actually built, which we know is very slow).
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How big of a problem is it that we have this crucial craft, on which we are knowingly staking the future, and almost none of its practitioners understand the fundamental tool they are using?
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(For the record, I don’t place myself in the top tier re understanding of speed or anything else. I am somewhere in the middle of that gradient between the 99.9% and the People Who Really Know.)
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow
can you recommend people on Twitter to follow who would be in the top tier? would carmack be one of them?
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Replying to @Strangelich
Yes, also Fabian Giesen.
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