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zahlmanyesterday at 4:55 PM1 replyview on HN

If the numbers come from analyzing performance in 2023, that seems more important than the external publication time.


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svatyesterday at 5:34 PM

The page is about tips for writing fast code. Much of it applied 20 years ago, and will apply 20 years from now. If by "the numbers" you mean specifically just the table ("rough costs for some basic low-level operations") in the "Estimation" section (which accounts for less than 0.5% of the words on the page), then that table was initially created in 2007, and is up-to-date as of 2025. Other numbers on the page are given with their dates, like 2001 and so on. So 2023 does not seem relevant in any way.