Making all divisions slower to fix a bug in 0.000000000000000000542% of cases (futhark-lang.org) 1 points by marvinborner 13d ago ↗ HN
[–] tester756 13d ago ↗ That's the most frustrating thing about compiler engineeringYou fix some feature, some workload, but performance regression appears in other which relied on some bullshit -unwritten convention, ordering, function name, luck, alignment of the stars, whatever.You spent 2 weeks fixing a thing and you still have to get back to it because someone is pissed off. [–] superxpro12 13d ago ↗ relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1172/
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[ 0.21 ms ] story [ 12.6 ms ] threadYou fix some feature, some workload, but performance regression appears in other which relied on some bullshit -
unwritten convention, ordering, function name, luck, alignment of the stars, whatever.
You spent 2 weeks fixing a thing and you still have to get back to it because someone is pissed off.