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1. hn_submit · 1790525037 · focus · HN ↗

   I write in C++ almost every day but never have the need to optimize for speed. Even when you write straightforward code it's already blazingly fast.

   1. loeg · 1790531476 · focus · HN ↗

      This is a sign you might be more productive in a higher-level language.

      1. creata · 1790531705 · focus · HN ↗

         And the code might be faster, too, like in that 2005 series of articles by Raymond Chen and Rico Mariani (in which one of them wrote a program in C++ and the other wrote the same program in C#).

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         1. someonebaggy · 1790580703 · focus · HN ↗

            Titles for future searchers:

            &quot;Just because I don&#x27;t write about .NET doesn&#x27;t mean that I don&#x27;t like it&quot;

            &quot;Performance Quiz #6 -- Chinese&#x2F;English Dictionary reader&quot;

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