On 07/05/18 18:14, Michael Torrie wrote:
On 07/05/2018 11:47 AM, Calvin Spealman wrote:
That wasn't me, but I do agree with the sentiment in that its often silly
to focus on them at the wrong time and without constraints that warrant
that focus.
Premature optimization is the root of all evil, the saying goes. I see
this kind of thing all the time on hobby programming forums for
non-mainstream languages (as an example, FreeBASIC). People are delving
into assembler all the time for "speed" rather than thinking about their
data structures and algorithms. I'm not sure they even know where their
programs are spending the majority of their execution time.
Yup. Like any other skill, part of mastery is knowing *when* to use it
as well as *how*.
-Jim
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