On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 05:54:24AM -0700, Timothy Payne wrote: > > Re: Advantages of SRPM over RPM > > <snip><snip> > > Blind optimization > > is a bad investment. > > [top-posting rearranged] > I'm going to put this on a post it note on my monitor, hopefully it will > keep me from thrashing around first before reading. Thanks. > There's also : "Premature optimization is a root of all evil." Popularized by Donald Knuth, author of "The Art of Computer Programming." The point is that optimizing when you don't know you have a bottleneck is usually a waste of time.
