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[–] [email protected] 86 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This reminds me of when genetic researchers found that the human genome contains less genes than a tomato

[–] [email protected] 71 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I always knew tomatoes were unoptimized

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Someone compiled tomatoes without -O3

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Go with -Os to optimise for codesize

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Often faster anyways as the CPU is eating through instructions faster than the RAM can keep up with. May or may not require compiling as x86-64-v2, depending on code. In general, never trust performance you didn't benchmark.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

And yet there are people that will argue that every nucleotide has an exact purpose, as if they were all divinely placed and mutations never occur.