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Subject: Re: General efficiency question

Author: J. Wesley Cleveland

Date: 10:23:25 04/22/02

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On April 22, 2002 at 01:50:30, Peter McKenzie wrote:

><snip>
>>Thanks for any help and advice you can offer.
>
>my 2 cents:
>
>Forget the issue.
>
>Write your program in a clear elegant style, don't even think about optimising
>until you have something that can beat gnuchess on a regular basis.

Exactly. It is *much* easier to make a good program fast than it is to make a
fast program good. Design your program so that everything can be easily changed,
because you will change almost everything. When you run out of ideas to make
your program better on a higher level, then get out your profiler and think
about optimizing.

>
>>
>>Russell



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