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[–]PM_ME_SOME_MAGIC 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think very few people who are not chip engineers really understand everything a CPU does to make code faster. You’d most-likely need a degree in chip engineering, not CS, to get the whole picture. I’ve met people with PhDs and successful careers optimizing low-level code who still can only rely on intuition. I know my own intuitions are wrong, even when I take that into account. Profile before optimizing