Re: To increase speed on manipulating big arrays in Java with minimal bounds checking, ...

Thomas Hawtin wrote:

> This sort of low level optimisation is not something to be concerned
> about.

Unless, of course, you are manipulating large amounts of data and the
application is running too[*] slow.

Which is a perfectly reasonable scenario.

-- chris

([*] for any of several possible values of "too", eg:
- three times slower than the legacy application we are trying to replace.
- it takes a week to run, but we need to run it once per day.
- it takes 120 millisecs to run, but I need to refresh the frame 25
times/second.
- it takes several hours to run, so any significant speedup would be useful
- ...
)




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