On Sep 7, 2006, at 4:13 AM, Sander van Dijk wrote:
> Optimization is far overrated,
About a decade ago I was working with a really good older programmer
named Frank on a huge realtime system he'd been coding for 18 years.
One of our junior programmers who was helping him proudly optimized a
loop.
Frank looked at the code change and said, "Great! Now if the system is
running 24 hours a day, you'll save about one second a year in execution
time. How long did it take you to code that?"
-- Jack J. Woehr Director of Development Absolute Performance, Inc. jwoehr_AT_absolute-performance.com 303-443-7000 ext. 527Received on Thu Sep 07 2006 - 16:46:35 UTC
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