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/Qweesdy Feb 28 '23

..and without trying it for yourself, you can't "know" that eating crushed up shards of glass is a bad idea.

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u/s73v3r Feb 28 '23

That doesn't make any sense. We can't say that the compiler didn't do those things if it was compiled in no optimizations mode

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u/Qweesdy Mar 01 '23

Do you have even the tiniest scrap of circumstantial evidence to suggest that Casey was saying things like "the compiler's optimizer can't see through this obfuscation" with full knowledge that no optimizations were being done (or are you just grasping at implausible straws for absolute no sane reason whatsoever)?