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From: barmar@kulla (Barry Margolin)
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Subject: Re: Inheritance & limited private types
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In article <126675@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> grover@sun.UUCP (Vinod Grover) writes:
>For those of us without profilers, I suppose, there is no hope. Or perhaps
>we should worry about efficiency before the product has been developed, or
>perhaps not to worry about efficiency at all. 

Making a program efficient without a profiler is like making a program work
without a debugger.  Sure, you can manually sprinkle your code with print
statements and timing statements, but it's not an efficient way to do it.

Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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