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I like C programs for their speed (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (2 children)

As someone who only codes solutions for himself I don't relate. All the extra time I would spend writting a C solution it would never attone the runtime loses of doing it in maybe python.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Anyway, this is only relevant if you're writing only for yourself. It's your poor users who suffer for your expediency.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Shaves off 1 sec and I do it 50+ times a day, checks out.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

I used to write extensively with C++, but it has been a long time since speed mattered that much to one of my applications. I still marvel at the cache-level optimizations some people come up with, but I'm in the same mindset as you now.

My workload split of Data Movement vs Data Transformation is like 95:5 these days, which means almost all the optimizations I do are changing batch/cache/page/filter settings. I can do that in any language with http bindings, so I choose those that are faster to write.