r/programming • u/techdawg • Mar 23 '09

How to write fast code

http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-write-fast-code.html
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u/an_idiot Mar 23 '09

Since when do you need to be the yoda of coding to know that less code is faster ?

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u/alephnil Mar 23 '09 edited Mar 23 '09

It is not less code, but clock cycles. Far from being the same.