• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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    2 hours ago

    I spent hours improving a website to the point first page load was under 100kB from previously multiple MB. Don’t think anyone will care about or appreciate my work.

    I hope somewhere there was someone on a low end device and they experienced a short load time. But it is near certain that I spent more time optimising it than will ever be saved on loading times for a small business site.

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      26 minutes ago

      maintainable code is most efficient

      sure there is a trade off but i’d rather runtime be slower than fancy brittle faster code

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    3 hours ago

    And I’m still getting at least 20x speedup on my applications. I don’t know where this 0.001 stuff is coming from.

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      2 hours ago

      I think it really depends on the work the program does and how effectively it uses caching, concurrency, etc. Something like data serialisation would probably be a lot slower in Python compared to something like handling simple UI event triggers which might only have that 0.001 difference