Re: What is Premature Optimization?

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:00:32 -0700, tenxian wrote:

Is it good or bad?

Bad. Optimizing before you know what to optimize.. usually by profiling
the application.

Knuth called it the root of all evil.

Is this homework?

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