I recently read a similar statement but I can’t rembenter where. Maybe if was from Apple about Xcode. What they said was even if you lose a little speed you are better off writing code that is easy for you to rend and understand instead of making it too complex.
John Balgenorth On Oct 4, 2014, at 6:51 PM, Mark Wieder <mwie...@ahsoftware.net> wrote: > Geoff- > > Saturday, October 4, 2014, 6:27:41 PM, you wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Dr. Hawkins <doch...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> If I'm going to call a routine, say, 100 times in a fraction of a second, >>> do I really save much by inlining it rather than calling it as a function? >>> > >> Premature optimization is the root of <some> evil. If you write clean code, >> it will be straightforward to optimize. If you write unclean optimized >> code, it will never be clean. > > I think the proper adage here may be that first you write the code, > then you make it work better, and finally you make it work faster. > > I spend much more time refactoring my code to make it more readable > and more easily maintainable than I do optimizing for speed. > > But to answer the OP's question: no. > > -- > -Mark Wieder > ahsoftw...@gmail.com > > This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the National > Security Agency (NSA) in secret. The parties to this email do not > consent to the retrieving or storing of this communication and any > related metadata, as well as printing, copying, re-transmitting, > disseminating, or otherwise using it. If you believe you have received > this communication in error, please delete it immediately. > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
