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At 00:27 07/03/2002 +1100, Rick Jelliffe wrote: >Efficiency comes from choosing the right algorithm above all. Here we disagree. Developers who focus on efficiency above all else get into trouble. Make it work - then worry about making it efficient, is my advise. I cannot explain why but doing it this way round, time and again, has saved my bacon. Efficiencies have a way of just dropping out of cleanly decoupled systems. It seems it is always possible to splice in "smarts" to make things go faster - often automatically e.g. optimizers, caches of various kinds. There is some sort of Zen like universal law at work there. Processing efficiency is like enlightenment. The more you struggle to attain it, the longer it takes to achieve. :-) regards, Sean
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