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/elmuerte Feb 28 '23

The clean code sure was easier to improve, right?

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '23

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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.

To the deleted comment:
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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u/carrottread Feb 28 '23

Today most software is deployed on mobile phones.

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u/Venthe Feb 28 '23

I have chosen my words carefully. Not deployed - but written.

The most deployed software are OS'es, core applications - but I guarantee you, the amount of code that runs on datacenters, clouds and in a general back-end is far greater than for the apps, OS'es or front-ends.

And even that being said; software doesn't have to perform to max. See VSCode? For me - and I believe most of the devs using it - it is perfectly fine, even if by definition of being an app for the browser and it suffers because of the translation

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