Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:53:58 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:37:33 -0400, Walter Bright > <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote: > >> Steven Schveighoffer wrote: >>>> Just goes to show how useful a profiler is. >>> Yes, I'm glad you pushed me to do it. Looking forward to the fix. >> >> The two secrets to writing fast code are: >> >> 1. using a profiler >> 2. looking at the assembler output of the compiler >> >> In my experience, programmers will go to astonishing lengths to avoid >> doing those two... > > You mean like asking someone who reported low performance of your > program on the newsgroup to do it for you? :)
He forgot: 0. use a better algorithm (the big O notation matters, like in this case)