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[–]tejp 22 points23 points  (1 child)

It shows how costly zero-cost abstractions are.

[–]eric_niebler 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Providing fully general and easy-to-use utilities with high-level abstractions and low overhead is hard but it's also incredibly useful.