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/ …
If you aggressively inline your functions, you can optimize better, but then the binary will be larger.
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Swift chose to have fast compile times and small binaries, at the expense of performance. Rust chose to have good performance but larger binaries [1] and slow compile times. https://gankra.github.io/blah/swift-abi/ [1]: Where large binaries means many 100s of KBs.
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Memory usage: If a programmer manages memory manually, they will introduce memory corruption bugs, some of which be security vulnerabilities.
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