in reply to Optimizations and Efficiency

Considering the famous Knuth (or whoever said it) quote Premature optimization is the root of all evil, /me thinks the following:
My code is never finished, hence it's always premature. On the other hand, the actual evolving is optimizing. Optimizing is often disguised as cleaning up code and adding features. The term optimizing is rather vague.

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Beatnik
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Re: Re: Optimizations and Efficiency
by toadi (Chaplain) on Jun 30, 2001 at 21:58 UTC
    Fact is that in a proffesional environment the code isn't therefore finished. But you don't get the chance to keep optimising it. Maybe a Deadline is nearing and you weigh the advantages and disadvantages against eachother and you say: "Ok, ok it's finished...". While you know there could still be things done!!!!

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