Remember the olden C days before compilers got really good (and freely available) so we'd still have inline assembly everywhere for better optimization lol.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

And then there's good old Chris Sawyer, writing an entire (fairly complex) game completely in Assembly, because he wanted the (actually kind of computationally heavy) game to still work on potato hardware.

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[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 10 points 3 days ago

New shortest path meta dropped

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.17033

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago

The solution that I know my colleagues can maintain in the future.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago (4 children)

This wholly depends on where this code is running. If it’s running on the server, you want the best algorithm for most cases, to try to minimize work and power consumption, and maximize capacity. If it’s running on the client, just use whatever.

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 3 days ago

Harold Shipman meme.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I feel like it would CS professors and not software engineers who would give that look.

[–] VonReposti@feddit.dk 3 points 2 days ago

Well, it is Dijkstra in the picture.

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