Sunday 18 August 2002 00:38, Simon Cozens wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski) writes: > > Has someone looked at and maybe committed this? > > The reason I asked which pieces of Parrot were prototypes was > because optimizing the hell out of something that's only a > prototype is nothing short of intellectual masturbation, and it > seems nobody actually learnt anything from my YAPC presentation > after all.
One possible reason would be to learn if a speed problem is due to the design or the implementation. Sometimes you only know if something can be fast enough until you try it to optimize the hell out of it. Could you share with the ones of us who where not in YAPC what was this presentation about? -angel
