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shanemhansen ◴[] No.45765342[source]
The unreasonable effectiveness of profiling and digging deep strikes again.
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hinkley ◴[] No.45776616[source]
The biggest tool in the performance toolbox is stubbornness. Without it all the mechanical sympathy in the world will go unexploited.

There’s about a factor of 3 improvement that can be made to most code after the profiler has given up. That probably means there are better profilers than could be written, but in 20 years of having them I’ve only seen 2 that tried. Sadly I think flame graphs made profiling more accessible to the unmotivated but didn’t actually improve overall results.

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