Code Efficiency Concerns

Users repeatedly critique the inefficiency, slowness, and performance overhead of specific algorithms, data structures, or implementations, often questioning trade-offs or suggesting profiling.

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Sample Comments

pbreit Feb 17, 2015 View on HN

Because it's slower, more compute intensive and unnecessary?

MichaelCollins Aug 17, 2022 View on HN

I believe they're sacrificing efficiency for performance.

speedgoose Jun 8, 2022 View on HN

That sounds very inefficient though.

rafram Jun 10, 2023 View on HN

That sounds wildly inefficient.

Matheus28 Jun 9, 2022 View on HN

That sounds awfully inefficient

dspig Mar 16, 2018 View on HN

execution speed would be a big one

lisper Apr 13, 2022 View on HN

More efficient by an order of magnitude or so.

blueblisters Jan 10, 2021 View on HN

That seems awfully inefficient.

mrmondo Jun 15, 2018 View on HN

wow, that is incredibly inefficient!

cma Oct 7, 2020 View on HN

Isn't there a performance burden?