Re: [OT] was: Where is NSList? (All Threads)
Re: [OT] was: Where is NSList? (All Threads)
- Subject: Re: [OT] was: Where is NSList? (All Threads)
- From: Steve Bird <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:40:09 -0400
On Jul 30, 2004, at 4:33 AM, Keith J.Schultz wrote:
Hi Everybody,
I think you should all go back to school and take a software
engineering course.
Hmmm. Everybody should go back to school, huh?
As a rule if you need something to be efficient code it you self !
My opinion is that the biggest word in that statement is "if".
And the key is knowing when you need to work on optimizing this
algorithm, and when you need to suck it up and deal.
You can put profilers to work on it.
Or you can take the algorithm in question out altogether, and see if
your bottom line execution changes significantly. If it doesn't, then
optimizing the algorithm is of little benefit (and possible harm to
clarity). If it does, then it might be worth spending time on.
After all, we could be writing in assembler language - that would be
more efficient, right?
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Steve Bird
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www.Culverson.com (toll free) 1-877-676-8175
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