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nottorp04/03/20251 replyview on HN

> From which the code can then be derived naturally.

Disagree with "naturally". Unless you want to end up on accidentally quadratic. Or on accidentally exponential if there's such a list.


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skydhash04/03/2025

Optimization is dependent on the technical aspect of the implementation. Ultimately, it is going to be a computer that's going to execute the program and it has its own constraints. Reconciling the domain and the execution platform is where the programmer expertise comes in.