I had lots of quote and extracts and stuff, but more words usually means less readers--it's a tabloid world.

Food for thought for many of those that perpetually rail against optimisation:

Mod_Perl is an optimisation! How many of you would forgo it's benefits?

What allows Perl (and Perler's) to enjoy better performance in most area's than similar, dynamic languages like Ruby and Python? The hard-won optimisations that countless hours of volunteer effort have extracted from the Perl sources. Don't deny it. Don't squander it.

There are lots of other examples, but those two might hit home.

Think of optimisation as a form of conservation. Good citizens don't waste!

Whether it is the world's natural resources, or that shared server's resources, don't squander them. Don't give yourself, or your fellow code maintainers horrible headaches to conserve cycles or memory, but if there are two ways to do something, and one costs less than the other and they are otherwise equal, use the one that uses less.

Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal?
"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.

In reply to Optimisation isn't a dirty word. by BrowserUk

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