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People hear and mindlessly repeat "premature optimization is the root of all
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evil", but they miss the full context of the quote.
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"Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about,
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> "Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about,
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the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at
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efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and
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maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say
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about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we
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should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%." -- Knuth
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should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%."
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>
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> -- <cite>Knuth</cite>
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Add: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=429&v=RT46MpK39rQ
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* don't ignore the easy optimizations
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* more knowledge of algorithms and data structures makes more optimizations "easy" or "obvious"
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"Should you optimize? "Yes, but only if the problem is important, the program
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Should you optimize?
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> Yes, but only if the problem is important, the program
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is genuinely too slow, and there is some expectation that it can be made
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faster while maintaining correctness, robustness, and clarity."
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-- The Practice of Programming, Kernighan and Pike
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>
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> -- <cite>The Practice of Programming, Kernighan and Pike</cite>
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Premature optimization can also hurt you by tying you into certain decisions.
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The optimized code can be harder to modify if requirements change and harder to
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TODO: How to avoid/detect "Death by 1000 cuts" from poorly written software.
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Solution: "Premature pessimization is the root of all evil". This matches with
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my Rule 1: Be deliberate. You don't need to write every line of code
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my Rule 1: Be deliberate. You don't need to write every line of code
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to be fast, but neither should by default do wasteful things.
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"Premature pessimization is when you write code that is slower than it needs to
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> "Premature pessimization is when you write code that is slower than it needs to
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be, usually by asking for unnecessary extra work, when equivalently complex code
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would be faster and should just naturally flow out of your fingers." -- Herb Sutter
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would be faster and should just naturally flow out of your fingers."
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>
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> -- <cite>Herb Sutter</cite>
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Benchmarking as part of CI is hard due to noisy neighbours and even different
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CI boxes if it's just you. Hard to gate on performance metrics. A good middle
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section.
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> The fight may not always go to the strongest, nor the race to the fastest,
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> but that's the way to bet.
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but that's the way to bet.
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> -- <cite>Rudyard Kipling</cite>
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Sometimes the best algorithm for a particular problem is not a single
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## cgo
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> cgo is not go
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> -- Rob Pike
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> -- <cite>Rob Pike</cite>
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* Performance characteristics of cgo calls
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* Tricks to reduce the costs: batching
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> The fastest algorithm can frequently be replaced by one that is almost as fast and much easier to understand.
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>
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> Douglas W. Jones, University of Iowa
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> -- <cite>Douglas W. Jones, University of Iowa</cite>
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The added complexity has to be enough that the payoff is actually worth it.
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Another example is cache eviction algorithms. Different algorithms can have
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