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		lmm on March 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple is looking for engineers to convert its code... Even for Apple, if "pretty good" performance were the price of avoiding another "goto fail" then it should be more than worth it.

malux85 on March 21, 2020 [–]

Sure, for some hypothetical tradeoff you just made up then sure ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But the reason companies as large as apple care so much about performance is because at their scale a 10% difference can easily mean 100,000 physical servers. So they do go to insane lengths to avoid "pretty good"

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