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		jjoonathan on May 19, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubbl... I'd expect kernel devs to carry lots of bad habits and poorly calibrated intuition from their noob days. Example: "for loops are fine."

sgerenser on May 20, 2023 [–]

What’s wrong with for loops?

jjoonathan on May 21, 2023 | [–]

They encourage accidentally quadratic behavior if they are easier than calling sort().

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