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colechristensen10/12/20241 replyview on HN

My rule is more like I’d be willing to bet even odds that this could be sped up 100x with the right programmers focused on performance. When you lack expertise and things work “well enough” that’s what you get. Same for games or enterprise software.


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squarefoot10/12/2024

That's what we get in a market dominated more by the need to release before the competition rather than taking some time to optimize software. If it's slow, one can still blame the iron and users who don't upgrade it.