Re: [OT] Premature optimizations
Re: [OT] Premature optimizations
- Subject: Re: [OT] Premature optimizations
- From: "Nat!" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 00:19:57 +0200
- Organization: Mulle kybernetiK
m wrote:
On Jul 29, 2004, at 4:50 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 29. Jul 2004, at 11:17, Steve Checkoway wrote:
Programmers are notorious for optimizing the wrong code.
What is your basis for that statement? which programmers are you
referring to?
As a seasoned software professional yourself, surely you are familiar
with the quote:
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
Yes and goto considered harmful ... Is this favoring the point of view
that "Programmers are notorious for optimizing the wrong code" or is it
against it ? It has nothing to do with it.
variously attributed to such algorithm giants (who know more than you
or me) as Tony Hoare and Don Knuth? Not to mention lots of books on
the subject that recommend getting your code working, *then* finding
the bottle necks?
I doubt, that the "premature optimization" mantra was coined with the
idea in mind, that you should use sloppy algorithms at the foundation of
your work. Those guys would have said, that it makes good sense to pick
the right datastructure for the program and not for example use arrays
for everything.
Ciao
Nat!
[ I assume you don't know Mr. Odgaard personally, so how do you know he
knows less than Hoare and Knuth ? :) ]
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