Re: What is Premature Optimization?

"tenxian" <hi.steven.tu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Is it good or bad?

Not good...the keyword being "premature", meaning "untimely, too soon,
hasty" in this context.

Premature optimization often refers to steps taken to improve speed or
reduce memory consumption, *before* there is reason to believe that such
steps are necessary. It does _not_ refer to judicious choice of fast and/or
memory-consumption-reducing architecture, design, algorithms and data
structures at the earliest possible stage.

AHS


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