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minus-squarekleeon [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48·edit-21 day agomodern CS is taking a perfectly functional algorithm and making it a million times slower for no reason
minus-squarebumpusoot [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-21 day agoGiven a small allocation can take only a few hundred cycles, and this would take at minimum a few seconds, it’s probably between a billion and a trillion times slower.
minus-squareLlituro [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 day agoinventing more and more creative ways to burn excess cpu cycles for the demiurge
modern CS is taking a perfectly functional algorithm and making it a million times slower for no reason
Given a small allocation can take only a few hundred cycles, and this would take at minimum a few seconds, it’s probably between a billion and a trillion times slower.
inventing more and more creative ways to burn excess cpu cycles for the demiurge