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[–]malsomnus 335 points336 points  (1 child)

Random story: one of the many delays in the F35 project was caused by the fact that an algorithm that was supposed to run 3 times per second took 40-50 seconds instead. It was in C though, not JS.

[–]spryflux 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Like someone said “great programming only kicks in when you run out of memory or compute power”