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this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2025
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Nah, I was excited to read about the algorithmic change, but it turned out to be an obvious change. I would replace nested loops with a map too. The result is impressive, though.
Marketing departments love to make a huge deal out of this kind of thing, because they only see the big number improvement and don't really understand that this was just some dev's Wednesday afternoon.
And they are right to do so. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't really matter how much time you spend on a problem. It's the result that matters. I remember a meme where a dev would place a "wait" function in a new feature. Than remove the wait call and call it a free update and get lots of praise from the customer.
https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Speedup-Loop
Well it's a 70 times improvement so the developer gets a 70 times bonus. Or at least all the money that would be wasted without this fix.
Or is the world unfair and are developers nowadays just cogs in a capitalistic machine?
I mean, it’s still really impressive upgrade even if technically it was a simple change, they are right to make a fuss about the change