Re: [dwm] improve config.mk

On Sep 7, 2006, at 10:46 AM, Ville Koskinen wrote:

>
> I'd like to point out that although optimization is overrated, it is
> wise to create systems that are optimal or semi-optimal by design.
> Most often those solutions are also the shortest and most elegant
> ones.
> I wouldn't call that optimizing, because the verb "to optimize" tends
> to have a negative flavor in some sense, but it's a similar process.

Very true.

The sort of optimization that is erroneous falls into two categories:

        1. Optimization whose payoff doesn't equal the labor cost.
        2. "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." - Dr. Donald Knuth

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