@KCombinator @tomdale @kellabyte an acid test of a good programmer is realizing that’s a losing proposition and moving onto something better
@KCombinator it's architecture-specific assembly. The compiler can't molest it
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@bascule no, but a new proc might. -
@KCombinator the bane of@hashbreaker. The only solution for that beyond measuring is constant-time instructions in the hardware -
@bascule what I'm saying is this: there are many, many possible layers of abstraction. Good coders need to be aware of all of them.
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