Comment by quotemstr
20 hours ago
My groceries are cheaper if I walk out of the store without paying for them too. Who's going to stop me?
While I agree that an optimistic optimization for the upper-bound-pass case makes sense, just ignoring the bounds just isn't correct either.
Common pattern in insurgent software is to violate a specification, demonstrate speedups, and then compare yourself favorably to older software that implements the spec (however stupid) faithfully.
> My groceries are cheaper if I walk out of the store without paying for them too. Who's going to stop me?
If you can consistently do that, then it IS the correct thing to do.
uv made that choice and users use them, is there an objective truth of what is “correct” to do version parsing?