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by the8472
1037 days ago
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It's not necessarily about sustained throughput spent only in this routine. It can be small bursts of processing text segments that are then handed off to other parts of the program. Once a program is optimized to the point where no leaf method / hot loop takes up more than a few percent of runtime and algorithmic improvements aren't available or extremely hard to implement the speed of all the basic routines (memcpy, allocations, string processing, data structures) start to matter. The constant factors elided by Big-O notation start to matter. |
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