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		throwaway7356 on March 31, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH ser... > There are simple usages like shifts to divide/multiply by 2. Clean code should not do that as the compiler will do that. Clean code should just say what it wants to do, not replace that with low-level performance optimizations. (Also wasn't performance to be obtained from newer hardware?)

jononor on April 1, 2024 [–]

Fair point about shifting being superfluous and not clean!

I never said performance should come only from newer hardware. Only that it is possible to trade vs hardware/costs - unlike correctness and trust.

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