As a sidenote: it is insane that I am now referred to as "performance focused." If you'd told someone at RAD to "go talk to the performance guy", they would literally go to every other office _but_ mine. I was easily the least performance-focused person there!
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I believe we have reached the point where code simplification and algorithm design are considered performance hacks
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Honestly, I'm not your coworker (sadly), but I had these thoughts

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I would have had to refer you to Miles, Fabian, Jeff, Sartain, or Abrash! They all were _very_ good optimizers. I didn't know anything.
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Even if you are "performance foucsed" persom, isn't that the essence of computer science, aka finding optimized solutions to problems, from what i see people are just intoducing new problems each day. Plus people are really being spoiled by good (fast) hardware IMO.
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Perhaps you are the go-to expert on not prematurely pessimizing?
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None of these four have a place in corporate programming jobs today, I'm afraid. That's why you're a scary person to anyone there...
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I work in a very different domain than you, so I don't know if it resonates with you in the same way, but I've always lived by Joe Armstrong's words. Most of the time, if I solve a problem as simply and clearly as possible, then the code is either fast, or easy to make fast.pic.twitter.com/vlXyBTqQ2M
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Did you design the oodle algorithms when you were there?
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Nope - that's all Charles and Fabian (http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/ and https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/about/ )... possibly some Jeff too, I would guess.
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Well... the biggest performance gains (orders of magnitude stuff) tend to result from architectural improvements...
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