Bug: Use of == for arithmetic equality

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Mon Feb 13 21:47:54 UTC 2006


On 13-Feb-06, at 1:40 PM, Dan Ingalls wrote:
>
>> For the newbies: Do not optimize for speed before you have proven  
>> that it makes sense,
>> and then *document* the hack. Using a hack by default because is  
>> "may be too slow" is
>> not a good idea...
>>      Marcus
>
> And for the "pros": Do not optimize for speed before you have  
> proven that it makes sense,
> and then *document* the hack. Using a hack by default because is  
> "may be too slow" is
> not a good idea...

Or more succinctly
On Optimisation:-
a) Don't
b) (For experts only) Don't, Yet

tim
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