2009/3/5 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net>: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Alexandre Julliard <julli...@winehq.org> > wrote: >> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> writes: >> >>> i would imagine that inefficient is the _last_ thing on the list of >>> priorities. "technically correctly fulfilling the semantics" i would >>> imagine would be the highest priority. >>> >>> "efficient" and "nice" can always be done later, yes? >> >> No, in many cases efficiency needs to be taken into account in the >> design phase. You can't just add it later. > > sure you can. by redesigning.
So you're saying that your original design is wasted effort? If it CAN be redesigned to be efficient, nice, sensible and correct, it's worth doing that from the start, especially in a big project such as Wine.
