The article on another thread [1] wrought up "Andy and Bils's Law":
"For every cycle a hardware engineer saves, a software engineer will add two instructions."
I thought of that reading last paragraph:
"Fast forward to today. A program to load /usr/share/dict/words into a hash table is 3-5 lines of Perl or Python, depending on how terse you mind being."
"For every cycle a hardware engineer saves, a software engineer will add two instructions."
I thought of that reading last paragraph:
"Fast forward to today. A program to load /usr/share/dict/words into a hash table is 3-5 lines of Perl or Python, depending on how terse you mind being."
1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25285862