You're right to emphasise good data-structures and algorithms (also concurrency,...

MaxBarraclough on July 2, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pointers Are More Abstract Than You Might Expect i...

You're right to emphasise good data-structures and algorithms (also concurrency, parallelism, etc), but compiler optimisation is nothing to sneeze at. '10%' is laughably off-base.

From a quick google: compiler optimisation can accelerate CPU-bound code to over 5x the unoptimised performance. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=clang-gc...

jeremiep on July 3, 2018 [–]

They seem to be benchmarking very specific things and not actual applications. These numbers do not hold in the real world.