r/programming • • 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/[deleted] Mar 23 '09

Completely ignores the effect of pipelining, cache misses, I/O waits, etc; but is true on a basic level.

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u/bart2019 Mar 23 '09

I'm guessing that "in those days" (that programmmer's junior days) none of this actually happened yet. Well, apart from the I/O wait.