"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance

Casey Muratori · 28 Feb 2023 · computerenhance.com ↗

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Our reading
The programming practices taught as best practice are ruinous for performance and should not be followed.

Their wordsThe ideas underlying the “clean” code methodology are almost all horrible for performance, and you shouldn’t do them.

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Our reading
Giving up a decade or more of hardware performance to make programming more comfortable is not an acceptable trade.

Their wordsIt simply cannot be the case that we're willing to give up a decade or more of hardware performance just to make programmers’ lives a little bit easier.

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Our reading
A programmer’s job is to write programs that run well on the hardware they are given.

Their wordsOur job is to write programs that run well on the hardware that we are given.

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