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by formerly_proven 637 days ago
Any implementation of an algorithm is slow when your baseline is not performing the computation at all.
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hinkley 637 days ago
The fastest line of code is no line at all.‡

[‡]: Unless it's some weird architectural fluke with pipelining.

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iscoelho 637 days ago
Haha, it's zero-copy! I never said it was "faster-copy" (-:
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