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Who ever said optimization and readability were mutually exclusive? If the engineer who develops this (provably optimized) codebase can't read the code, he/she
by davtbaum 14y ago
Who ever said optimization and readability were mutually exclusive?
If the engineer who develops this (provably optimized) codebase can't read the code, he/she should be replaced with someone who can.
- Rastafarian 14y agoRight, an advice with zero practical value. There's such an abundance of great programmers awaiting a job/contract offer ...
- sliverstorm 14y agoIf "optimized" means "clean and efficient", then yes, it is inherently readable. But, there are plenty of optimizations one might make that are obtuse and difficult for any human to easily hold in their head.