A few days ago, a fascinating article about Grand Theft Auto Online made the rounds of the tech news ecosystem.
I’d encourage you to read the whole thing, but in short, GTA Online had accidentally quadratic performance when parsing a large JSON blob (due to repeated calls to
strlen); fixing this improved loading time by almost 70%.This sparked a great deal of discussion: Was this C’s fault? Perhaps “web shit”?Capitalism and incentives?
Still, folks in the comments section generally agreed: they wouldn’t write anything that silly…
https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2021-03-01-happen/
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