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xtajv
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Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to...
1. Read the code 2. Don't. Encapsulate and put yourself in a position to swap out the implementation at will.
(Maybe you'll swap out an unnecessary dependency for a simple helper function of your own).
Bratmon
48 days ago
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But if I followed that advice here, I would say "Obviously I don't need a library to multiply numbers" and miss the decades of research and optimization.
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(Maybe you'll swap out an unnecessary dependency for a simple helper function of your own).