Saturday, September 18, 2004

performance anxiety

When will programmers stop worrying about performance? After all, premature optimization is the root of all evil. And unless the code is exceedingly inefficient, just throwing more hardware at it solves the problem. Which is much cheaper than programmer's time these days.

This rant brought to you by Java assertions, which are disabled unless the -enableassertions flag is explicitly specified.

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