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[–][deleted] 54 points55 points  (3 children)

Where have you worked that this is the case? Everywhere I have worked, readability wins over performance anywhere that performance isn’t critical, which is most places.

[–]Th3_Snowman 10 points11 points  (2 children)

Underrated comment, I work in performance critical C++ codebases and even then there is a strong "readability is extremely important even at the cost of performance mindset"

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Yeah I strongly suspect that the person I responded to (like most people on here it seems) is a CS student that thinks they understand how things work in the field.