Stop Doing Optimization

STOP DOING Optimization • Code was never meant to be optimized • YEARS OF OPTIMIZING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for BETTER PERFORMANCE • Wanted to get better performance anyways? We had a tool for that, it was called "Upgrading hardware" • "Yes please give me a low memory footprint. Please give me 5% CPU utilization" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged Look at what Low-level programmers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the RAM & CPU cores we built for them (This is REAL optimizations, done by REAL programmers): ???? ??????? ???????????????? "I spent the entire week reducing the system latency by 2ms" They have played us for absolute fools

A satirical programming meme shows a presentation mocking low-level programmers for spending years optimizing code without finding real-world use, then demanding more RAM and CPU power. The punchline is that their tiny performance gains, such as reducing latency by 2ms, supposedly justify expensive hardware upgrades, making the optimizers look like fools. It is sent as a reaction to pointless overengineering, premature optimization, or negligible performance improvements. EN: A satirical programming meme shows a presentation mocking low-level programmers for spending years optimizing code without finding real-world use, then demanding more RAM and CPU power. The punchline is that their tiny performance gains, such as reducing latency by 2ms, supposedly justify expensive hardware upgrades, making the optimizers look like fools. It is sent as a reaction to pointless overengineering, premature optimization, or negligible performance improvements.

• @sbunem / 49020 2023-06-27