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jjtheblunt
98 days ago
> Most production software is multiple orders of magnitude slower than it needs to be.
at least 100x slower than it needs to be?
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eudamoniac
98 days ago
Easily. Lots of things can take 3ms that actually take 300ms. Happens all the time.
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jjtheblunt
98 days ago
what's an example?
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eudamoniac
98 days ago
A poorly written SQL query, an algorithm on large data sets using suboptimal bigO, the Home Depot or Lowe's website search bars, etc
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jjtheblunt
98 days ago
good examples, i agree
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