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willsethyesterday at 6:51 PM1 replyview on HN

Knowing that an empty string is 41 bytes or how many ns it takes to do arithmetic operations is not general knowledge.


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oiveyyesterday at 7:40 PM

How is it not general knowledge? How do you otherwise gauge if your program is taking a reasonable amount of time, and, if not, how do you figure out how to fix it?

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