I can’t imagine the sort of bugs you get when your code relies on stable sort but calls qsort and everything works great until the machine is under heavy load.
Someone recently did something very stupid/clever with an API that I wrote.
In the code review I initially complained, but then I couldn’t think of any other way to interpret the design. So I guess that’s a feature now. ‘Course later we found a performance problem, but, you know…
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I can’t imagine the sort of bugs you get when your code relies on stable sort but calls qsort and everything works great until the machine is under heavy load.
The most annoying part of development, your users can and will rely on any observable behaviours of your software.
Someone recently did something very stupid/clever with an API that I wrote.
In the code review I initially complained, but then I couldn’t think of any other way to interpret the design. So I guess that’s a feature now. ‘Course later we found a performance problem, but, you know…