Re:How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
by branko_d on Monday March 01, 2021 @01:36AM
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I think this part of the Knuth's quote is central:
> Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered.
And he is explicitly advocating for optimizing the critical part:
> Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.
And somehow, people have latched onto the catchphrase about "early optimization" that was taken out of context.
> Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered.
And he is explicitly advocating for optimizing the critical part:
> Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.
And somehow, people have latched onto the catchphrase about "early optimization" that was taken out of context.