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Refterm Lecture Part 1 - Philosophies of Optimization

Molly Rocket · 10 recommenders · 10 months

Casey Muratori's first refterm lecture lays out philosophies of optimization, distinguishing optimization from non-pessimization, which means avoiding needless work. It uses his fast terminal renderer project to show how fast computers really are.

Why Hacker News readers recommend it: HN returns to it constantly in software performance debates as the primer on non-pessimization and why modern software is slow.

10 recommenders1 strong recommendations2021–2026
Software performance & optimization#non-pessimization#optimization#casey muratori#refterm#terminal emulators

“The video on Philosophies of Optimisation is a good primer on the tenets of the course.”

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