It's been headline news (at least by Lemmy standards), so it's a safe bet that Earthwormjim91 was alluding to it when he initially brought up Torvalds, and I was referring to it when I initially brought up optimisation. It wouldn't have been clear to you if you hadn't known about it already, as no one linked an article or said explicitly that that's what they were referring to, but for someone who did, it would have been obvious. You wouldn't expect someone to explicitly say they were referencing Shrek if they said that something had layers or something was sacrifice someone was willing to make when it clearly would only affect other people, and you wouldn't expect someone to explicitly say they were referring to Trump's infamous COVID-era press conference if they mentioned injecting bleach.