On Thursday, 11 November 2021 at 00:11:07 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
It depends on what you're doing. In the OP's example, yeah worrying about allocations is totally blowing things out of proportions.
But that's the thing. How would one ever learn to know where that dividing line is if all the learning material they see teaches them the opposite - to not know or care?
'Twas a simple task: traverse an array and print numbers out of it based on a predicate. That is all the original program did. How does doing (LOTS) more than that make any of it easier to understand, let alone equivalent to execute?
forkit says: "if I was writing millions of processes across 1000s of servers..." No. Just... no. If I've only ever written "convenient" pessimized code, I won't magically start lighting up those wasted transistors just because I got a new job. I'll just be writing the same "convenient" pessimized code, only it would now span 1000s of servers. Which is the exact effing situation that we're in already!
