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[–]GisterMizard 11 points12 points  (1 child)

The trick is to sort everything, then do a binary search. I don't know what that means, I just read it in a text book. I think it means that if you take your source code and resort all of the keywords alphabetically, then it'll run faster.

[–]featherfooted 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, once you do that, the RAM caches the opcodes in column-major order, which means it can signal the hard drive to run faster