From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: Spam Hater Subject: Re: Software Engineering is not a hoax... Date: 1997/06/17 Message-ID: <33A6AFF4.7497@no.such.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 249099482 Sender: usenet@most.fw.hac.com (News Administration) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: sparc02 References: <5lsjb3$bqc@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <33859489.7FB8@spam.innocon.com> <3385B67B.1439@msim.co.uk.spamstop> <01bc7746$c7475c50$fc00af88@godiva> <33A63C56.5CB7@seanet.com> <01bc7b0a$df5636f0$0ca3ca0a@cookies> Organization: See Warning Below! Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-06-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > > > There's something wonderful about tinkering, like ... > > > counting the number of clock cycles in a loop to see if some > > > fast operation can be made faster; ... > > > > This latter case is not just bad software engineering, it is bad hacking > > "Bad"? What's bad about it? If it's bad, what moral principle does it > offend? OK, how about "waste of time and money" ? OTOH, as Robert Dewar pointed out, fanatic adherence to "rules" can be counter-productive. If your program spends 98% of its time inside that loop, and it is not meeting its timing requirements, .... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wes Groleau, Hughes Defense Communications, Fort Wayne, IN USA Senior Software Engineer - AFATDS Tool-smith Wanna-be Don't send advertisements to this domain unless asked! All disk space on fw.hac.com hosts belongs to either Hughes Defense Communications or the United States government. Using email to store YOUR advertising on them is trespassing! ----------------------------------------------------------------------