sturlamolden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10 Des, 23:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote: > >> "Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming." >> --C.A.R. Hoare (often misattributed to Knuth, who was himself quoting >> Hoare) > > Oh, I was Hoare? Thanks. Anyway, it doesn't change the argument that > optimizing in wrong places is a waste of effort.
Although sometimes people seem to think that it goes "optimisation is the root...". The "premature" bit is significant. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list