This is something I could scream about for hours: WHY IS SOFTWARE SO SLOW? And I don't mean Google sized RL training clusters, I mean stuff like goddamn text editors. This can't be as good as it can get, there just has to be a better way.https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/ …
Some thoughts: (The following should not be taken as an apology for the current state of software development.)
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Binary size: There are trade offs between (performance and portability) and binary size. If you dynamically link your libraries, the binary will smaller, but if the DLLs are not present, it will break.
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If you aggressively inline your functions, you can optimize better, but then the binary will be larger.
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