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Re:The square roots of all evil by winternewt on Friday December 06, 2024 @06:18PM (#42345650)
In my experience, the people who say"premature optimization it's the root of sal evil" will say that about any and all optimization until the point where all your customers think your product is a slow piece of garbage.
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Re:The square roots of all evil by stickfigure on Friday December 06, 2024 @07:16PM (#42346039)
> about any and all optimization that hasn't been measured

Fixed that for you.

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Re:The square roots of all evil by galangalalgol on Friday December 06, 2024 @10:37PM (#42347048)
When I want some sw to go faster I do profile it, but I also give at least some thought to avoiding unnecessary copying of data or trig functions in tight loops. I regularly have run into people that say considering performance when selecting a data structure is premature optimization. It usually turns out they don't really want to test or profile and just want to churn through tickets. Anything that gets in the way of that bores them.
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Re:The square roots of all evil by pwdisswordfishz on Saturday December 07, 2024 @03:48AM (#42348295)
No, broken.
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Re:The square roots of all evil by winternewt on Sunday December 08, 2024 @12:58PM (#42358702)
Measuring would attract even more protest because not only am I using my experience to choose (likely) more efficient algorithms, I am also spending yet more precious company time to measure its performance.
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