LOL "You could spend six months rewriting your inner loops in Assembler, or take six months off to play drums in a rock and roll band, and in either case, your program would run faster."
andy -----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bil Corry Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:37 AM To: jQuery List Subject: [jQuery] Spolsky's Strategy Letter VI This is interesting in the context of jQuery's core optimization vs. larger, less-optimized libraries: ----- The developers who put a lot of effort into optimizing things and making them tight and fast will wake up to discover that effort was, more or less, wasted, or, at the very least, you could say that it "conferred no long term competitive advantage," if you're the kind of person who talks like an economist. <http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/09/18.html> ----- - Bil