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		lordlimecat on Aug 24, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Print(“lol”) doubled the speed of my Go function ....And then feel OK resorting to ChatGPT for the explanation. Seriously that threw me, and maybe it makes sense in this context but it seems strange for someone with such an apparent depth of technical knowledge leaning on an LLM for anything.

layer8 on Aug 24, 2023 [–]

It seems they didn’t want to bother coming up with their own explanation, but then why not just link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_predictor?

xdavidliu on Aug 24, 2023 | [–]

pasting LLM answers is sort of a tongue-in-cheek rhetorical flourish these days

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