• To: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Subject: Bis on the apparent importance of emoticons (was "Design as, one hopes,not premature optimization")
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 08:18:41 -0700
• Cc: michael.h.kay@n..., "'Jeff Lowery'" <Jeff.Lowery@c...>, "'Chiusano Joseph'" <chiusano_joseph@b...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...> of "Thu, 03 Apr 2003 10:49:47 EST." <5.2.0.9.0.20030403103707.07ece520@n...>
• Sender: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>

> Someone wrote:
> >the accepted wisdom that premature optimization is evil?
> 
> Here's what that accepted wisdom means: A well-structured program is an 
> important prerequisite for optimizing dynamic evaluation, because it leaves 
> you the flexibility to optimize precisely the things that a profiler tells 
> you are the bottlenecks, and the resulting code is still maintainable.

And again.  Maybe I should have made my post a couple of days ago?

I wonder whether there is an apothegm to be distilled from the fact that 
resonses on the day I posted it got the joke, and responses on the following 
day didn't?

Maybe "sero advenir semper deducet gravitas"?  Where's Bacon when you need him?

Oh, lest I forget

:-)


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