"By far the most surprising feature of their architecture is in Lesson Six, whose essential idea is: The key to speed is to precompute everything and cache It."
That made me LOL. Is this really surprising? A symptom of years of high-level web development or similar... ?
This is /the/ classical optimisation strategy - since the day of pen and paper computations (anyone remember "log" books?).
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"By far the most surprising feature of their architecture is in Lesson Six, whose essential idea is: The key to speed is to precompute everything and cache It."
That made me LOL. Is this really surprising? A symptom of years of high-level web development or similar... ?
This is /the/ classical optimisation strategy - since the day of pen and paper computations (anyone remember "log" books?).
> Steve says a lot of the lessons were really obvious, so you may not find a lot of completely new ideas in the presentation.
He did also state that he went straight from Uni into this. So while some of the lessons might be obvious they may not have been to him to start with.
I think twitter does the same.