On Friday, 4 April 2014 at 08:05:58 UTC, renoX wrote:
On Friday, 4 April 2014 at 08:00:09 UTC, w0rp wrote:
I think this is a really interesting argument. Don't write
ugly things to get performance. Instead write obviously
correct things and then make obvious optimisations.
Bah, except that if you use everywhere big ints, floating point
intervals instead of floating points (the former is the correct
representation of reals, the latter isn't), normalized strings,
the obvious optimisations won't necessarily be enough to avoid
being very slow..
Says who? And slow to whom?
1 - Write correct code
2 - Use a profiler, if the code isn't fast enough for the use
case being written for
3 - If desired use case isn't there, use the profiler information
to improve the specific hotpaths in need of tuning.
I see too many people micro-optimize for nothing.
--
Paulo
