Re^2: Regex Optimization Question

There's efficiency in execution time, efficiency in memory usage, efficiency in programmer time, etc. Generally programmer time is the most important thing to optimize for,

IMO, it's actually very, very rare if there's a situation where you can pinpoint "the most important thing to optimize for".

In fact, I cannot think of any.

Generally, they are all important, and it takes a good programmer/manager/project leader to strike the right balance.

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Re^3: Regex Optimization Question by duff (Parson) on Jun 29, 2011 at 17:48 UTC
Indeed. However, not having any information about where to focus on efficiencies, you can't go wrong on "programmer time" as a sane default thing to optimize. That's why it's generally the most important thing and not specifically the most important thing. :-) duff	[reply]
Re^4: Regex Optimization Question by JavaFan (Canon) on Jul 03, 2011 at 20:14 UTC
You got any data to back that up? Or is that just your opinion? Frankly, I doubt that it will still be your opinion if you gave it half a second of thought. Seriously, if programmer time would be "generally" the most important thing to optimize for, we shouldn't be writing documentation or tests, and copy-and-paste would be preferred over refactoring.	[reply]