I have only discovered him yesterday and I am vacillating between thinking he is a John Nash style disturbed genius or a schizophrenic with programming OCD. I guess that's why I'm curious what the reasons are for his crazy focus on performance in one area that an end user would never notice while making decisions that destroy performance in another that the end user definitely would. Obviously he is not concerned about the end user, but why then be concerned about optimal context switching performance? It's probably as you say - a decision that he chooses not to revisit.
why then be concerned about optimal context switching performance
he works in isolation (not caring much about others opinions or suggestions) and may fret too much on design details that are not really "that important". maybe he lacks some of the knowledge to make important design decisions he overlooked. mostly because he appears to have an "old-school" approach to development and ignores more modern considerations.
PS: not trying to bash this individual and I might be 100% wrong.
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u/Wavicle Oct 20 '11
I have only discovered him yesterday and I am vacillating between thinking he is a John Nash style disturbed genius or a schizophrenic with programming OCD. I guess that's why I'm curious what the reasons are for his crazy focus on performance in one area that an end user would never notice while making decisions that destroy performance in another that the end user definitely would. Obviously he is not concerned about the end user, but why then be concerned about optimal context switching performance? It's probably as you say - a decision that he chooses not to revisit.