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[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yup. And our processors are a lot more powerful, so the tricks you'd do in assembly to eek out performance just don't matter anymore.

[-] mbfalzar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago

I know it's a typo but "eek out performance" has made me picture someone programming a little ghost to spook the rest of the code into running faster

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

I think it was a subconscious letter swap. :) I'll keep it because ghosts.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yes that's what I was referring to.

It's some sort of out of order execution and branch prediction that does it. The thing you're usually waiting on the most is IO.

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