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Reminds me of this quote which I recently found and like: > look, I'm sorry, but the rule is simple: if you made something 2x faster, you might have done something smart if you made something 100x faster, you definitely just stopped doing something stupid x.com/rygorous/status/12712968344392826…
Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)Read the thread - Recommends
Reminds me of this evergreen tweet from ryg: mobile.twitter.com/rygorous/status/1271…... if you made something 2x faster, you might have done something smart if you made something 100x faster, you definitely just stopped doing something stupid
4000x Speedup in Reinforcement Learning with JaxRead the thread - Cites it
"look, I'm sorry, but the rule is simple: if you made something 2x faster, you might have done something smart if you made something 100x faster, you definitely just stopped doing something stupid" x.com/rygorous/status/12712968344392826…
A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gapRead the thread - Cites it
> look, I'm sorry, but the rule is simple: > if you made something 2x faster, you might have done something smart > if you made something 100x faster, you definitely just stopped doing something stupid
How VSCode made bracket pair colorization faster (2021)Read the thread