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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: fastest data structure
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:33:49 -0600
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Simon Wright wrote in message ...
>"SteveD" <nospam_steved94@attbi.com> writes:
>
>>   Optimize only the parts of a system worth optimizing.  One of the
>> old systems proverbs, the 90-10 rule, says: In a typical
>> application, 90 percent of the total run time is devoted to
>> executing only 10 percent of the code.
>
>One problem with code generators (including compilers) is that you
>tend to get distributed overhead. If you have a generic that is
>instantiated in hundreds of places in your system, it's very hard to
>see the inefficiencies using something like gprof.

Unless your compiler uses code-shared generics. (Plug for Janus/Ada. :-)

Of course, then you have the distributed overhead of generic sharing.
(I'm afraid that there still is no free lunch.)

          Randy Brukardt.