Nice story! I'm sure the DailyWTF would appreciate it too, if you're that way inclined.
‘We can't ship that,’ he said, ‘it's far too embarrassing. We'll have to deliberately slow it back down again, and ship lots of incremental speed upgrades.’ This is far too plausible.
I managed a 3,000-fold speed improvement two years ago, through a judicious combination of more efficient I/O and an algorithm with better efficiency order.
Fortunately, I was allowed to ship that because the previous effort had transcended far-too-embarrassing and moved into mistaken-for-a-crash. (-8
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‘We can't ship that,’ he said, ‘it's far too embarrassing. We'll have to deliberately slow it back down again, and ship lots of incremental speed upgrades.’
This is far too plausible.
Fortunately, I was allowed to ship that because the previous effort had transcended far-too-embarrassing and moved into mistaken-for-a-crash. (-8