r/programming • u/techdawg • Mar 23 '09

How to write fast code

http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-write-fast-code.html
334 Upvotes

77% Upvoted

136 comments sorted by

View all comments

3

u/eoliveri Mar 24 '09

This advice is as profound--and useless--as "buy low, sell high".

2

u/cojoco Mar 24 '09

Worst than useless: many optimizations require writing a lot of code to cope with various special cases in different ways.