• To: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Subject: Re: Design as, one hopes, not premature optimization
• From: Bill de hÓra <bill@d...>
• Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 11:37:10 +0100
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Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> "Design is a kind of optimization, as Tommie Usdin likes to point out"
> 
> Hah.  Interesting way to put it, and quite true, but since design is typically 
> the first step in development, does this cause a collision of aphorisms with 
> the accepted wisdom that premature optimization is evil?

We're always optimizing, just not always optimizing for performance. 
For the hillclimbers among us:

http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/wolpert95no.html

Bill de hÓra
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