Yeah, it's like those posts "we made it 5,000x faster by actually thinking about what the code is doing."

therealdrag0 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Exactly. Reddit did one last year like: “We migrated from python to golang and fixed a bunch of non-performant SQL queries. It was so fast, isn’t golang awesome?”

	▲	selcuka 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I was once asked to migrate a Microsoft Access application to C#/MS SQL Server because it was too slow. I just added a few database indexes to make it an order of magnitude faster. (They still wanted to go ahead with the migration, but that's a different story.)

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anon7000 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I have about a dozen projects I’d love to tackle in this vein. (Not as low hanging fruit, but enough effort they’re languishing in the backlog.) we’ll actually be able to get to more those projects with agents and good specs