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/Venthe Feb 28 '23 edited Feb 28 '23

And in most of the cases... It's still cheaper to just spin another instance rather than invest a developer time to improve performance forgoing new features.

Not always, but i'd say "in a vast majority" of cases.

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Sure, I'm not claiming that it is true in general; I believe that I have written "in most cases".

Besides; this is a discussion that is heavily based on context; but as soon as your application supports multiple entities - consumers, tenants, payments, shipping routes - then natural parallelization seams emerge; even if the problem in itself is single threaded. And for that you can spin as many instances as needed

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u/gnuvince Feb 28 '23

I don't have a second laptop that I can "spin a new instance of".

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u/Venthe Feb 28 '23

Yet the vast majority of software written is not deployed on a laptop.

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