[OT] Walter's anecdotes

[Mark]

On Thursday, 5 August 2021 at 17:46:22 UTC, Dennis wrote:
> ## Optimizing the standard library (October 2020)
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/rljdoi$dcj$1@digitalmars.com
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> Borland carefully implemented the C library in hand-optimized 
> assembler by some very good programmers. Even printf was coded 
> this way. The speedups gained there sped up every Turbo C 
> program. At the time, nobody else had done that.
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> Much as I hate to admit it, Borland made the smart move there.

I admit it as well. If only we could apply the same principle to 
a society as well? How would that work? Humans are a bit more 
complicated than computers though. They can lie, disinformation 
is harmful.