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"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (www.computerenhance.com)

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Many programming "best practices" taught today are performance disasters waiting to happen.

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[–] BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you are right that optimising engineering cost is the goal of these practices, but I believe it is a bad thing.

Nowadays we have the most powerful hardware we ever had, yet everything is slow. Sure we reduce dev cost, but the end user is paying the price difference with its time in my opinion.

In the end the only people that benefit from this are the owners of the product, making more money selling unoptimised software, devs maybe get a bit more money, but probably not that much.

[–] ignirtoq@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I think you are right that optimising engineering cost is the goal of these practices, but I believe it is a bad thing.
In the end the only people that benefit from this are the owners of the product [...]

Yes, that's exactly how the for-profit software industry (and really any for-profit industry) is run. The owners maximize their benefit. If you want to change that, that's a much different problem on a much larger scale, but you will not see a for-profit company do anything but that.