@dan613 @cstross @blacklight The amount of time it's taken me to accept that compilers actually do a good job of optimization these days and thus that I can abandon various constructs to help them out has been considerable. Except ++var over var++. That' still sometimes a thing.

@dan613 @cstross @blacklight As you should. Memory management has been a long time source of dynamic runtime errors. I would cast a skeptical eye towards anyone who says compilers handle memory optimization just fine.

@blacklight @dan613 @cstross I optimise for speed wherever there is a trade-off between the two. For example you could not store an intermediate result and recalculate it every time you need it. That would save memory but use more CPU cycles.

@cstross @blacklight To be fair, though, if I walked round the back of it, it didn’t automatically turn to face me 😂

@transponderings @cstross @blacklight

There's a bit of difference between -using- it on 32KB or coding it on 32KB. ;-)

I'm a programmer from 'that generation'.