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-----Original Message----- From: Ashley Winters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 7:19 AM To: Luke Palmer Cc: Leopold Toetsch; Perl 6 Internals Subject: Re: Premature pessimization On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 11:46:24 -0700, Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leopold Toetsch writes: > > This term came up in a recent discussion[1]. But I'd like to give this > > term a second meaning. > > Except what you're talking about here is premature *optimzation*. > You're expecting certain forms of the opcodes to be slow (that's the > pessimization part), but then you're acutally using opcodes that you > think can be made faster. This is a classic Knuth example. So the sequence of using classoffset/getattribute is a _feature_ necessary for completeness, rather than a "pessimization" to compensate for the belief that not explicitly caching would be hopelessly slow? Ahh. I'm learning much. :) Ashley Winters
