optimization....help
- Posted by Euman <euman at BELLSOUTH.NET> Oct 20, 2000
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------=_NextPart_000_002A_01C03AEF.51D54520 charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Found on the net.......... Programmers tend to over-estimate the usefulness of the programs they = write. The approximate value of an optimization is:=20 number of runs =D7 number of users =D7 time savings =D7 user's = salary - time spent optimizing =D7 programmer's salary even if the program will be run hundreds of times by thousands of users, = an extra day spent saving 40 milliseconds probably isn't going to help.=20 euman at bellsouth.net ------=_NextPart_000_002A_01C03AEF.51D54520 charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4207.2601" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> <P>Found on the net.......... <P>Programmers tend to over-estimate the usefulness of the programs they = write.=20 The approximate value of an optimization is: <PRE> number of runs =D7 = number of users =D7 time savings =D7 user's salary - time spent = optimizing =D7 programmer's salary </PRE> <P>even if the program will be run hundreds of times by thousands of = users, an=20 extra day spent saving 40 milliseconds probably isn't going to help. = </P> <P> </P> <P><A href=3D"mailto:euman at bellsouth.net">euman at bellsouth.net</A></P> ------=_NextPart_000_002A_01C03AEF.51D54520--