The general tone of responses is based on an educated guess of real needs judging from past experience with other people asking those questions.

As for the past experience with people trying to speed things up, well the following essay on code tuning is exactly accurate. Yes, there are times that you need to tune code. I have been there, and done that. But most of the people who think they need that are just shooting themselves in the foot. What they really need to do is learn to write clearer code, get it working, and then be able to step back and do the really valuable kinds of analysis on the overall project.

The image that comes to mind is someone who is so focussed on the need to be moving really fast that they are tripping over their own two feet. Get them to focus on effective walking motions, and they get farther immediately, plus are going to be in a better position to learn how to run later...

In reply to Re: Re: Quick User Existance Check? by tilly
in thread Quick User Existance Check? by Anonymous Monk

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