korrents

Our readingWhat is a korrent?

Augmenting a general-purpose solver with domain-specific heuristics commonly gives it a meaningful performance boost.

Drawn from what Nelson Elhage said

What this subject means

software performance Speed as a mark of quality: bloat, boot times, and software that got slower on hardware that got faster.

What Nelson Elhage actually said

  1. Nelson Elhage Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance
    My sense is that this hybrid is fairly common in practice; solvers aren't magical and if you can deduce additional structure using domain-specific analysis, it will often give the solver an important boost.

Added to korrents 20 Sept 2026 · How quotes work · Something wrong? Tell us

Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?

I hold this too

Related korrents

Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.

See this claim on the map