Engineer: spending a week debugging why a kernel is slow beats copying optimized code
Abhishekcur · x · 2026-09-26
The author argues they'd rather spend a week figuring out why a kernel is slow than blindly copying an optimized implementation—once you understand the actual bottleneck, that knowledge compounds and applies to the next kernel. Understanding the why always beats copying the how.
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