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		readthenotes1 on April 5, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Fifth Kind of Optimisation I was reporting to a developer some research I'd read that said that about half of errors were logical (and, or, off by 1) and half misusing an API. The developer replied "and the other half comes from concurrency". All of us listening did the math and burst out laughing for the trenchant truth

NitpickLawyer on April 5, 2025 [–]

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, “I know, I’ll use threads,” and then two they hav erpoblesms.

pornel on April 5, 2025 | [–]

This is where Rust makes a massive difference. I can change iter() to par_iter() and have it work flawlessly on the first try.

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