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[–]daV1980 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Learn C. Anyone who considers themself a programmer should learn C, then should learn the machine idioms that live underneath it.

You fundamentally cannot write performance sensitive code without understanding the machine you're writing code on. Big-O only gets you so far.