Re: Does anyone have a list of 'donts' when optimizing?

Don't work on speeding stuff up that has little or no effect on the overall efficiency.

Reminds me of the time I helped my friend move a clothes washer. I insisted that we remove the agitator first, and spent five minutes removing it to find -- surprise! it only weighed about a pound, and we still had to carry the rest of this 180 pound monster up a flight of stairs and onto a pickup.

He was very patient. Never said a thing, but he sure smiled a bit.

--t. alex

"Nyahhh (munch, munch) What's up, Doc?" --Bugs Bunny

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Re: Re: Does anyone have a list of 'donts' when optimizing? by Kanji (Parson) on Apr 16, 2002 at 14:54 UTC
To echo talexb, be very wary of premature optimization; you can waste an obscene amount of time optimizing things that you know to be relatively inefficient but pale in significance against less obvious bottlenecks in your CGI. Anyhoo, searching for 'optimization' turns up a fair amount of nodes, and I'm sure Super Searching would turn up even more, but two nodes (RFC CGI.pm refactoring and CGI::Simple vs CGI.pm - Is twice as fast good enough?) that might be of particular interest ... --k.	[reply]

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Re: Re: Does anyone have a list of 'donts' when optimizing?
by Kanji (Parson) on Apr 16, 2002 at 14:54 UTC

To echo talexb, be very wary of premature optimization; you can waste an obscene amount of time optimizing things that you know to be relatively inefficient but pale in significance against less obvious bottlenecks in your CGI.

Anyhoo, searching for 'optimization' turns up a fair amount of nodes, and I'm sure Super Searching would turn up even more, but two nodes (RFC CGI.pm refactoring and CGI::Simple vs CGI.pm - Is twice as fast good enough?) that might be of particular interest ...

--k.

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