In <[email protected]>, on
04/08/2015
at 04:26 AM, David Mingee <[email protected]> said:
>I agree with Ed. There are always cases where the effort and cost
>might outweigh the benefit of tuning, but there are still many
>cases where thereis cost savings.
>From my perspective, the cheaf advantage of inspecting hot spots is
that bloated code is often sloppy code, and thus more likely to have
bugs. An undetected bug can be a more serious problem than a modest
performance hit.
As for performance, I believe in the Multics lesson; fast code is
good, but fast algorithms trump it.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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