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Re:The Sad Reality of Post-Mature Optimization by CJefferson on Saturday August 13, 2011 @04:19PM (#2881888)
Yes, I disagreed with that. In almost any project I've worked with, which has never been profiled, then over 90% of the time is spent in a few functions, which can be easily optimised.

Of course, after a few passes through the profiler, things start getting harder, but that's a seperate issue.

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Re:The Sad Reality of Post-Mature Optimization by corysama on Saturday August 13, 2011 @05:27PM (#2882049)
I get to deal with the separate issue fairly often. After a few passes, 90% of the time is being spent in 90 functions taking no more than 2% each. At that point, I have to start ripping out layers of std::map<std::string, boost::shared_ptr<boost::any> >. That's even less fun than it sounds...
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