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mhitzatoday at 5:41 PM2 repliesview on HN

Premature optimization argument fits right in. Now that memory is up to 10x more expensive it is worth considering optimizing programs with large memory footprint.


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toast0today at 6:00 PM

Using obviously better data structures the first time isn't premature optimization.

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evikstoday at 5:44 PM

How does that fit? What would be the evil of not wasting memory for many years at 1x?

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