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> The old advice is to ignore performance because it’s not important. > The only yardstick of teaching that means anything is to look at what people go and do
by IncRnd 8y ago
> The old advice is to ignore performance because it’s not important.
> The only yardstick of teaching that means anything is to look at what people go and do with what you taught them.
> I spent a big chunk of my early career doing performance analysis work in a language stereotyped as being slow.
Something doesn't compute with those statements. Can you profile what it might be?
- hinkley 8y agoIf it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Even though we just spent ten minutes detailing how it’s broken. As someone else stated, make it work make it right make it fast, but people never get past make it work. They fear changing the code. It’s one of the things I loved most about XP (and I barely got to use it before it was already going out of fashion). Get over the fear.
- IncRnd 8y agoYou replied to the wrong comment. None of that is related to what I wrote.