Jack J. Woehr --> dwm (2006-09-07 08:46:16 -0600): > > On Sep 7, 2006, at 4:13 AM, Sander van Dijk wrote: > > >Optimization is far overrated, > > About a decade ago I was working with a really good older programmer > named Frank on a huge realtime system he'd been coding for 18 years. > > One of our junior programmers who was helping him proudly optimized a > loop. > > Frank looked at the code change and said, "Great! Now if the system is > running 24 hours a day, you'll save about one second a year in execution > time. How long did it take you to code that?"
Hmm, but this alone doesn't imply that the junior programmers efforts were useless. The question is: what would he have done with his time if he had not spent it optimising that loop? ;-) Cheers, Jukka -- bashian roulette: $ ((RANDOM%6)) || rm -rf ~
