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		hinkley on April 29, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Performance optimization is hard because it's fund... Simplifying complex code often exposes optimization opportunities. Kernighan’s Law applies to performance as well as debugging.

tmoertel on April 29, 2025 [–]

Indeed!

hinkley on April 29, 2025 | [–]

If you can’t make it faster, make it dumber.

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