mleku on Nostr: i wish i could spend 5 minutes walking you through the secp256k1 library used in ...
i wish i could spend 5 minutes walking you through the secp256k1 library used in bitcoin core and point out to you how many ways it is both excessively verbose, and confusing to follow, and then show you how people trained in using this language made the abomination called btcec, which is 1/10th as performant, as a result of their excessive verbosity and lack of brain
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