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From: "Steve Doiel" <nospam_steved@pacifier.com>
Subject: Re: Does ObjectAda optimize at all??
Date: 1998/08/14
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Tom Moran wrote in message
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>>making an unreadable
>>mess of thier source code for the sake of speed.
>Someone said "Premature optimization is the root of all evil."

In "The Practical Guide to Structured Systems Design" by Meiler Page - Jones
they have a chapter on optimization.  I work by the philosophy presented
there:

It's easier to get a working system efficient than it is to get an efficient
system working.

Simplicity is a virtue that bears it's own rewards.

Optimize a system only if it fails a performance test.

Optimize only the parts of the system worth optimizing (10% of the code runs
90% of the time).


It has been my experience that making a clean system that is not heavily
optimized often reveals high level changes that lead to greater gains than
low level optimizations.  BTW: I am one of those programmers who has had to
go in and try to get a system running that was too heavily optimized.  I've
even seen heavily optimized code that is only run once at boot time on a
system that is rarely restarted.

FWIW
SteveD