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Why are authors of highly performant code allergic to readability?

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  • 3
    This is from Chumsky, an otherwise great parser combinator. The docs are missing some critical information and the fields don't have names.
  • 4
    @lbfalvy must be a mental thing, they think preformant code means short lines, and short lines means short variable names
  • 3
    Readability is lava
  • 2
    When performance is primary, readability is secondary
  • 0
    @Hazarth this isn't sacrificing readability for performance, this is sacrificing readability for character count.

    Except for the constructor, nowhere is this thing used as a tuple. The fields are exclusively accessed using dot syntax.
  • 0
    One think fuck you 😂😂😂
  • 0
    because they're used to unreadable code since huge number of times, the most performant code is unavoidably the least readable
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