Re: What can we optimize (was Re: Schwartzian transforms)

[John Porter]

Dave Mitchell wrote:
> The main thrust of that was whether a PDD on coding conventions
> should have sections on:
>...
> * Performance guidelines
> 
> ...I guess we can safely dispense with that last entry.

No, performance guidelines are probably still appropriate;
but doing hand-coded peephole optimizations is not the
Right Thing.  As Jarkko, said:
> > Optimizing by
> > choosing good algorithms and data structures, yes

-- 
John Porter