On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 07:14:09PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Tomasz Zielonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Anyway, don't concentrate on this particular example. All I say is that:
> > - sometimes I get efficient programs in Haskell right away (I my case
> > quite often, but YMMV)
> > - sometimes efficiency doesn't matter
> > I don't think it is contradictory, especially because the two
> > "sometimes" can have a non-empty symmetric difference.
>
> ... speed/efficiency ...
>
> ... optimize.
>
> ... fast ... faster... optimize
>
> unoptimized ... fast ...
>
> optimize...
>
> ... optimize ...
I think it's high time to remind the very true Hoare's words:
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming"
It's strange nobody mentioned it earlier.
Best regards
Tomasz
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