35 points marvinborner 2 days ago 2 comments

tester756 2 days ago | parent

That's the most frustrating thing about compiler engineering

You fix some feature, some workload, but performance regression appears in other which relied on some bullshit -

unwritten convention, ordering, function name, luck, alignment of the stars, whatever.

You spent 2 weeks fixing a thing and you still have to get back to it because someone is pissed off.

superxpro12 2 days ago | parent

relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1172/