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Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?

The ask story

Maybe there will even be more interest in the invention and use of more advanced algorithms and data structures that use less memory

The impact

The significance lies in what happens next: Hacker News notes that responses are already forming.

The ask backdrop

The arc leading to this moment stretches across multiple prior developments in ask, programmers, write, efficient, code, as Hacker News has documented.

Where this fits in Signal Ledger

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Our ask read

Signal Ledger reads this through the lens of ask, programmers, write, efficient, code: Maybe there will even be more interest in the invention and use of more advanced algorithms and data structures that use less memory.

Source note

Hacker News reporting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604232

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