Early Optimization

April 17th, 2007
[ Geek ]

A great quote of Donald Knuth’s is “Early optimization is the root of much evil.” I’m with Donnie. Don’t solve problems you don’t yet have because in doing so you may create worse problems than the ones you didn’t have to start with. Wow, does that make any sense?

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  1. shiftMode » Blog Archive » Optimizations not a bug and a microsoft bias Says:

    […] This also gets me thinking about the use of third party frameworks like NHibernate, Lucene, etc in general. I’ll just say it, my experience is that “Microsoft” developers are biased towards Microsoft products. Ok, now that I write that I feel like I just said black is the new black. I’ll try to explain and hope I find a point in here somewhere. […]

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