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		coldtea on May 13, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Benchmarking division and libdivide on Apple M1 an... >libdivide is fish’s library for speeding up integer division by runtime constants. Why would a shell need a library to speed up integer division though? I guess it can be good to have, but for the use case, sounds like overoptimization. Are the returns in speed that good for the use case?

jakobnissen on May 13, 2021 [–]

I think the author of the library is nicknamed Fish.

coldtea on May 13, 2021 | [–]

Perhaps, but also the shell he created is named as such.

If he referred to himself he could just say "my library for" instead of "fish's library for".

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