Algorithms/go-perfbook
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Actions Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

put in full knuth quote to help translators.

Browse Source
This commit is contained in:
Damian Gryski 2018-03-08 13:54:40 -08:00
parent d886290924
commit bcd6cdac21
1 changed files with 9 additions and 2 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

11
performance.md
View File

@ -56,8 +56,15 @@ Think of this as optimizing *your* time.
You get to choose what to optimize and when to optimize. You can move the
slider between "Fast Software" and "Fast Deployment"
Clarify "Premature optimization" quote. 97% of the time.
But work on those important 3%.
People here and mindlessly repeat "premature optimization is the root of all
evil", but they miss the full context of the quote.
"Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about,
the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at
efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and
maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say
about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we
should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%." -- Knuth
TPOP: Should you optimize? "Yes, but only if the problem is important, the
program is genuinely too slow, and there is some expectation that it can be