To quote Jon Bentley (Programming Pearls): "The fastest, cheapest, most reliable piece of code is that which isn't there; design as much out of your code as you design in."
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 3:57 AM, Philipp Pagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:04:46AM -0500, hadley wickham wrote: >> 2008/6/20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > On 20 июн, 11:06, Wacek Kusnierczyk >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> the result may be that the more beautiful the code, the more the >> >> performance >> >> sucks. >> > >> > Sad but true. >> >> If you do nothing to your code, in 18 months time its performance will >> have doubled because computers will have become faster. Your code >> will not get easier to understand by itself. > > Very true. And I would like to contribute one of my favorite quotations: > > "It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code." > --Bill Harlan > > cu > Philipp > > -- > Dr. Philipp Pagel > Lehrstuhl für Genomorientierte Bioinformatik > Technische Universität München > Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan > 85350 Freising, Germany > http://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.