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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Replying to @cmuratori
If you care that computers don't waste 99.9% of their cycles, you are performance-focused now, I guess.
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow @cmuratori
"hey look at that crazy performance-focused geek, he's using C++! what a waste! I have all my neat packages at hand to do hard things like checking if a number is positive or not!"
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sadly we're at a point where even native programs are slow...
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Sometimes they're actually _slower_. Because browsers have at least had performance teams on them for years. The W3C specs may be bad, but talented optimizers have done some amazing things making browsers somehow still run OK despite what they have to work with...
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