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Cake day: August 9th, 2024

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  • when writing somewhat low-level code, you always make assumptions about things. in this case, they chose to manage 256 entries in some array; the bound used to be lower.

    but implicitly there’s a tradeoff, probably memory / CPU utilisation in the server.

    it’s always about the tradeoff between what the users want, what is easier for you to maintain, what your infrastructure can provide, etc.