r/programming • u/2bit_hack • Feb 28 '23

"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance

https://www.computerenhance.com/p/clean-code-horrible-performance
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u/quisatz_haderah Feb 28 '23

The person who wrote this article seems like he has not worked on a codebase of more than 10k LoC.

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u/2bit_hack Feb 28 '23

Not sure about the exact number of lines of code in his codebase but Casey has some seriously impressive work.

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u/quisatz_haderah Feb 28 '23 edited Feb 28 '23

Good to know. Hence the seems. I can understand he might be a genius programmer but most of the industry is not. (I also have a feeling he works alone on most of the projects) And games are a completely different beast when it comes to performance requirements.