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		sahila on Sept 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Airlines make more money from mileage programs tha... Of course it's not always true but I think there's an implicit assumption of "all things equal". The same efficient algorithm written in more lines of code vs less lines of code would be less cpu instructions in the latter.

nerdbert on Sept 22, 2023 [–]

I don't think that assumption is implicit in this argument, since it's specifically about whether complexity can lead to better optimization.

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