Re: Pre-condition vs. Post-condition

[jls@rutabaga.Rational.COM (Jim Showalter)]

>Some bit-fiddlers have argued that the latter is slightly more efficient,

BIT FIDDLER!?!?!? BIT FIDDLER!?!?!?!?

Stab me in the heart and TWIST THE KNIFE, why don't you?

Sheesh.

Of all the low blows over the years, this has GOT to take the cake.
I realize I made an argument based on efficiency, but I assure you
that was a momentary lapse. I've been accused of over-abstraction
before, but never bit fiddling. I HATE bits--if there was a way
to run software without hardware I'd jump at it.

I'm a software architect, software process and methodology consultant,
and OO/Ada trainer. Efficiency is about 96th on my list of concerns:
I generally tell people the way to improve performance is to bid faster
hardware, not worry about this or that register allocation word alignment
or whatever.

Bit fiddler.

Sheesh.
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