Re: [OT] Premature optimizations (was: Where is NSList?)
Re: [OT] Premature optimizations (was: Where is NSList?)
- Subject: Re: [OT] Premature optimizations (was: Where is NSList?)
- From: m <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:16:35 -0700
On Jul 29, 2004, at 4:50 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 29. Jul 2004, at 11:17, Steve Checkoway wrote:
[snip]
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."
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?
_murat
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