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Re: Is Performance Overrated?by nothingmuch (Priest) |
on Feb 19, 2006 at 19:41 UTC ( [id://531285]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Perfomance is a word often used with a very narrow meaning.
Other measures of performance people should be more concerned about:
Also, wrt throughput, remember that typically when someone runs a long program they tend to run it 10 times before on smaller data, just to make sure it works like they expected. I tend to try to make sure that I can slice that chunk of time by giving nice progress reports, and decent defaults/warnings/hooks, thus usually halving the truly total time, instead of making sure i can fudge data a into data b in the minimum number of opcodes. Anyway, my point is: Balance is everything.
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