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by sfifs 2326 days ago
HPC where you try to wring the last ounce of performance from machines insufficiently powerful for the task. Weather forecasting, weapons simulation, protein folding...
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That's interesting. I don't think as optimized memory manipulation via convoluted casting and such as "complex stuff". I think of that as optimization.

I thought what the author meant by complex was a gigantic system that needs to use many design patterns for good reasons; the code models a very complex, convoluted domain.