Hi, I'm Oliver.

Coffee enthusiast with a love for all things tech. Tech enthusiast with a love for all things coffee. Studying for my Bachelor's in Computer Science at USW.

Shorter code ≠ better code

There's an interesting post about how clever code is bad. It outlines some bad practices, and some good ones to use in their stead, such as the snippet:

// bad
while (*d++ = *s++);

// good
strcpy(destination, source);

But I'm here to hammer that point home and show to you that shorter code can, and often does, perform a lot worse than a readable alternative.

Wednesday, 11 May 2022 · 4 min · Oliver