On Dec 31, 2006, at 6:48 , Lennart Augustsson wrote:
Oh, I have other arguments against pragmas. :)
But I think the best one is that optimization applied in the wrong
place is just poor software engineering.
As Michael A. Jackson said:
The First Rule of Program Optimization: Don't do it.
The Second Rule of Program Optimization (for experts only!): Don't
do it yet.
/me is moderately mystified that an experienced programmer hasn't
discovered that one the hard way yet.
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