Performance Tuning As Ancient Wisdom

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A Reddit screenshot from r/AskReddit shows a post by "u/Glittering-Air-1927 · 6d" asking, "What “old person” things do you do?" The post UI shows "248," "581," "Share," and "Award," followed by a "SINGLE COMMENT THREAD" section with a "VIEW ALL" link. A comment by "dullbananas · 6d" answers, "when programming, i care about performance," with visible UI controls including "Edit" and a score of "24." The joke treats performance awareness as a relic of older programming culture, poking at modern abundance, framework overhead, and the tendency to defer optimization until users or infrastructure bills complain.

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Performance is what you start caring about after the cloud bill becomes your profiler.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Performance is what you start caring about after the cloud bill becomes your profiler.
@tarasssssssssssssss 5y

Actually the opposite. Performance-first is bad practice. In gamedev especially. I would say I started to write "slow" code just to develop faster
1. @alissonlauffer 5y
  
  then release lots of patches for improving performance after release
  
  @tarasssssssssssssss 5y
  
  Exactly! But in most cases you will never release this piece of code. Like in cyberpunk a lot of features were removed (if look at early gameplay trailers and final result)
  
  @alexolexo 5y
  
  Testing before releasing? Never heard of it
2. Deleted Account 5y
  
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@ogroleg 5y

too early optimization =)
@tarasssssssssssssss 5y

No :) When you will get "old" enough you will understand that early optimization is bad. 🙏☺️
1. @RiedleroD 5y
  
  I see. Well, I hope you will continue developing great software for microsoft.
2. @GTRst 5y
  
  That's why Wirth's law works and why modern gaming PC h/w costs so much 🙂
  
  @tarasssssssssssssss 5y
  
  Ahhh gosh guys))) When you really need to optimize smth — you do. When you just write shitty code to verify business hypothesis — it's better not to think about performance at first place.
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  that's what the electron devs thought
  
  @tarasssssssssssssss 5y
  
  so yeah, lets better all switch to assembler to write performant code, yeah💪
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  we have a saying in austria: zweng und zfü is in noan sei zü. It means you're stupid.
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  no, but seriously, it means you gotta do everything with moderation
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  literally translated it says "too little and too much is the goal of a fool"
  
  @tarasssssssssssssss 5y
  
  CRINGE! In our century we use memes😎
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  what are you even trying to say?
  
  @tarasssssssssssssss 5y
  
  1. I agree with you. I said exactly what you are trying to prove. Original statement "I care about performance" sounds like early optimization, which is "too much goal of a fool" 2. YOU GOD DAMN ANCIENT 3. Ok, boomer
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  I think the idea of premature optimisation=bad is still not that true. I mean, yeah, it's about moderation, but I believe we might have different viewpoints of where the sweet spot is. 2. I'm 16 3. I'm still 16 lol
  
  @tarasssssssssssssss 5y
  
  You are 16, but already dead inside... 😢
  
  @GTRst 5y
  
  I know, I write in Java and PowerShell (somebody kill me plz) because Java runs everywhere where JVM is installed and PowerShell runs on Windows machine without additional stuff (stupid architecture where monitoring server is on Windows and agents are on Windows, Linux, AIX, z/OS, etc)
@RiedleroD 5y

I think there's somebody who's 15 in here. Not sure though.
@RiedleroD 5y

I think I started at age 12 or something with some python. Might've used scratch for a while before that. It really does take a person with no friends for that kind of thing though, so it's not all positive.
@RiedleroD 5y

trust me, you don't want to be friendless. That was a time in my life I don't want to ever experience again. Even as an introvert, I'd never go back to that kind of life for any amount of skill and/or money.
@RiedleroD 5y

possibly. As you said, everyone's different. I don't think there's something wrong with you though unless you're uncomfortable or making other people uncomfortable. From your description, that doesn't seem to be the case, so enjoy being weird, but in a good way :)

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