Gary Bernhardt: programs get faster whenever you port them, so just keep porting
teropa · x · 2026-10-19
Gary Bernhardt's satirical takeaway of the month: computer programs apparently get faster whenever they're ported to another language — so just port back and forth until every program needs only one CPU cycle. A snarky jab at the recent AI rewrite/retranslation performance hype.
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