Comments by "Toby" (@toby9999) on "40x Faster Binary Search" video.

  1. The other problem with Rust is that it's awful for demonstrating general concepts due to its insane syntax and senantic rules. One of the reasons Pascal was used a lot in academia. It's simpke and self documenting.
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  2. ​@maidenlesstarnished8816 Why the religious tone?
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  3. ​ @my_online_logs Calm down...
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  4. Yeah, none of that code makes any sense to me.
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  5. Big (O) is not broken. You have to understand the constant component. And which time complexty is appropriate and which conditions. But yes, modern hardware has made that goal more difficult.
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  6. I touch Rust and got my fingers burned, metaphorically. I'm not going back for more. It was painful.
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  7. Not really, and I don't understand why folk hate optimisations. I love them. There are real-world applications that require as much speed as can be thrown at them. I've spent the past 20 years working on such products. It's not all about servers. A lot of high-performance applications do run in isolation. They need to. SSDs are not an optimisation, so that's moot. You don't compensate for poor optimisation by buying faster hardware. Because there, you're not maximising potential. But Im not into developing bloatware, so there's that.
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