About Performance

Performance: we wish the incentives were there to focus on it more often.Lars would like more opportunities and incentives to focus on making things fast, rather than just making them not slow. Unfortunately, things tend to line up so that fast enough and more features are in focus. Plus, performance and optimization can be very context sensitive and age out without anyone really noticing.Also pondered: IRC, Gentoo, and the eldritch horrors buried within the x86 architecture.LinksGrepos.walk() in PythonWhy GNU grep is fastRipgrepAg - the silver searcherTravelling salesman problemBin packingMnesiaORMProject EulerFibonacci numbersD. Richard Hipp - the guy behind SQLiteChangelog episodes with RichardXKCD and IRCIRCIRCCloudMatrix and ElementElmSVGCanvasNeovimLispArchNixGentooFuntooDartFlutterSkia - the graphics library under FlutterLinked listPointersCISC - Complex instruction set computerRISC - Reduced instruction set computerio_uringQuotesGiven up on old man ElixirGotta go fastI never really needed itGrep, naivelyAll the problems at the same timeTravelling knapsack problemMy ORM-infected brainMeasuring things and muttering under my breathI have a hobby, I do job interviewsTools by toolmakers for toolmakersI'm the IRC guyMachine-whispering optimization