Re: Date manipulation

From: JerryMouse (nospam_at_bisusa.com)
Date: 12/30/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 18:49:29 -0600

Judson McClendon wrote:
> "Howard Brazee" <howard@brazee.net> wrote:
>>
>> Six invokes for a command used once in a program is nothing.
>> Decisions such as this should be made solely on maintenance
>> efficiency, not run-time efficiency.
>
> If that code is in a transaction routine that is called 1000 times a
> second,
> the overhead isn't 'nothing'. And what about turning over midnight
> after
> the first call and before the last call? Remember Murphy's Law. :-)

There's not much that CAN take place in 1 milli-second, but I understand
your point.

Still, coding for micro-efficiency is a pitiful waste of resources (it
should even be illegal).

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