So, I'm sitting here, playing a trap, listening to Qaru Podcast # 20 , and Joel talks about the guys from Excel at MS who wrote their own compiler to improve the performance of code that worked with pointers, and I wondered
when is it NIH versus being a sensible investment of time?
Given the situation where the current compiler performance was terrible, I see that selling this particular case for management was pretty simple, given that you had a certain optimization area that you wanted to add.
But for now, can you imagine trying to turn to the manual and say you need to rewrite gcc?
So, how do people determine whether to persecute the idea against “windmill addiction”, the persecution of drops in NIH syndrome?
I ask because we need to spend some time improving some aspects of our operating platform. I am interested in how to go “with a lid in your hand” to ask “Man” for some time to be allocated for an improvement, which, as most people know, will surely pay off in the future.
Edit: I forgot to emphasize that we are a service company providing a platform for a major broadcaster. It is this platform that has grown organically over the past 15 years, which needs some improvements. The provision of this service is our core business function.
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