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Re: Visiting your cake and eating it too (was Stupid Questio

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• Subject: Re: Visiting your cake and eating it too (was Stupid Question)
• From: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...>
• Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 13:30:16 +0000
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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

• References:
  • Re: Stupid Question (was RE: XML doesn't deserveits "X".)
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  • Re: Stupid Question (was RE: XML doesn't deserve its "X".)
    • From: Joe English <jenglish@f...>
  • Re: Stupid Question (was RE: XML doesn't deserve its "X".)
    • From: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>
  • Re: Visiting your cake and eating it too (was Stupid Question)
    • From: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...>
  • Re: Visiting your cake and eating it too (was Stupid Question)
    • From: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...>
  • Re: Visiting your cake and eating it too (was Stupid Question)
    • From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>

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