On Sunday, 26 March 2023 at 18:07:03 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
It should be the opposite
Slow code ugly
Fast code beautiful
What's fast today may not be fast tomorrow but the language might
still be relevant.
e.g.: It used to be faster to ...
- pre-calculate sin/cos tables, now the memory look up cost more
cycles than the calculation itself
- use fixed point integer math, now every CPU has what used to be
a floating point co-processor integrated
- only redraw the parts of the screen that changed, now the
branching is slower than to redraw everything
another example is sorting - Alexei wrote a blog post about how a
stupid and slow sorting algorithm now performs better in multi
threading. Maybe someone remembers the title/url of the post ?
And finally, beauty is in the eye of the beholder - meaning it's
purely subjective.
