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4 billion if statements (andreasjhkarlsson.github.io)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not a trade off between dev time, execution time and memory as the author claims. It's materially worse for all 3

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I think he was being sarcastic, playing with words. Meaning, that you trade in time, runtime and memory and get nothing in return :D so a pretty bad trade haha.

Of course it's worse, I mean, that was the point of this blogpost, wasn't it? :p It's just a (long) joke.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

On reread, you're totally right. Went right over my head